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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

NEW YORK 



AND 



ITS OLD FAMILIES 



(From 1678 to 1820) 

Including the Huguenot Pioneers and Others who settled 
IN New Paltz previous to the Revolution 



By RALPH LEFEVRE 

President New Paltz Huguenot, Patriotic, Historical and Monumental Society 

Corresponding Member Huguenot Society of America ; 

Thirty-four years Editor of New Paltz Independent 



illustrated 



HORT ORANGE PRESS 

Brandow Printing Company, Albany. N. Y. 

1903 



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PREFACE 

IT is natural for the people of any country or community 
to feel an interest in the history of their ancestors. 
Even the most savage nations have carefully cherished tra- 
ditions of the deeds and prowess of their forefathers. 

To every man the honorable fame of his progenitors is 
an incentive to emulate their noble deeds. 

In the early settlement of New Paltz and its history for 
nearly a century afterwards there is such a touch of ro- 
mance, such a blending of the stern realities of frontier 
life with the harmony of the poet's golden age, such noble 
examples of devotion to the cause of religious liberty, such 
brotherly kindness toward each other as exiles for a com- 
mon cause, that the example should not be lost to posterity. 

Our old men are falling around us. The traditions which 
they cherished are perishing with them. What is to be 
saved from oblivion must be saved now — in this generation. 

With these feelings we have undertaken the task of gath- 
ering up the scattered links of history and joining them in 
a chain that sliould stretch down from the days of the 
Patentees. 

In writing the history of New Paltz it is not to be ex- 
pected that the record of its early settlers can be carried 
back of the time when our ancestors fled from France. 
Louis XIV was not satisfied with driving his Protestant 
subjects out of the country and confiscating their lands and 
goods. — Their very names were obliterated from baptismal 
and genealogical records. The record of the marriage of 



iv PREFACE 

Louis DuBois, at Manheim, in 1655, shows that he was the 
son of Chretian DuBois, of Wicres. The old register at 
the little village of Wicres has been examined and found to 
contain the registry of the baptism of three sons of Chretian 
DuBois, but in each case the Christian name of the son is 
torn out, in accordance with the orders of the French king. 
The same is no doubt the case with the other church regis- 
ters in France in which the names of the Huguenot settlers 
of New Paltz might otherwise still be found. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Chapter I 

PAGE 

Events preceding the settlement ^ 

All probably lived at Hurley ^9 

Chapter II 

More land wanted ^^ 

Deed of gift to Jean Cottin 22 

The French schoolmasters at New Paltz 25 

Houses built by Patentees 28 

Dressmaking in the old days 32 

The first sales of land 33 

Chapter III 

The French records of New Paltz church 37 

Chapter IV 

The blending of French and Dutch at New Paltz 44 

Chapter V 

Collection of old papers 49 

Patentees' trunk S3 

Chapter VI 

The spelling of various family names 55 

Chapter VII 

Moving out and moving in 5° 

Dutch language superseding the French 59 

Territory formerly part of the town, but not within the Paltz Patent 60 

The first public highway 62 

Disputes in regard to the boundaries of the Patent 63 

Chapter VIII 

A pure Democracy 

Land worked in common °9 

The government of the Dusine "9 



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Chapter IX 

PAGE 

The Indian- and hunting stories 78 

Stolen by the Indians 82 

Some hunting stories 83 

Wild pigeons and larger game 86 

Desperate fight with a bear 87 

Chapter X 

Property holders at New Paltz in early days 89 

Taxpayers in I7t2 89 

The building of the first stone cluirch 91 

Freeholders in 1728 93 

New Paltz taxpayers in 1728 92 

List of slave holders in 1755 93 

Value of the Precinct of New Paltz in 1765 93 

Chapter XI 

The contract of 1744 103 

Civil government 107 

Neighborhoods annexed to New Paltz 107 

Payments of rents and taxes 108 

Tax receipt 108 

Chapter XII 

A short historical memorandum 110 

Matters submitted to voters. . n j 

Chapter XIII 

The first manufacturing industry in Southern Ulster 115 

Soldiers in the Colonial period 1 16 

Coats of arms in Huguenot families at New Paltz. iig 

Chapter XIV 

Ti iries in the Revolution 1 22 

Old frame houses 124 

A famous old oak 125 

How they crossed the Wallkill 127 

The Springtown merchant of 1800 129 

WashingtDn Irving and Martin Van Buren 130 

Regimental training 131 

Amusements in the olden times. . . 132 



CONTENTS vii 
Chapter XV 

PAGE 

The New Paltz church 1 34 

The two French pastors I37 

The first stone church I39 

Rev. Johannes Van Driessen 141 

Rev. Barent Vrooman 144 

Baptizing the children at Kingston 145 

Connection between Church and State 146 

Rev. Johannes Mauritius Goetschius 147 

The Conferentia church 148 

The second stone church 152 

Rev. John H. Meyer 1 56 

Rev. Peter D. Freligh I57 

Rev. William R. Bogardus 1 57 

Rev. Douw Van Olinda 158 

Ch. AFTER XVI 

Old county records at Kingston 160 

Could not build the church by tax 164 

Wills of early New Paltz people 164 

Other valuable pajjcrs 165 

Chapter XVII 

Articles of Association 167 

Chapter XVIII 

New Paltz in the Revolution 171 

First Ulster County Regiment 172 

Second Ulster County Regiment 173 

Third Ulster County Regiment I73 

Fourtli Ulster County Regiment 174 

Chapter XIX 

Guarding the Frontier from Tories and Indians 178 

Colonel Cantine's letters to General Clinton 179 

Money promised when he was appointed at New Paltz 180 

Murdered by Indians 181 

Escaped from Indian captivity 181 

Paying his men i8j 

Cowardly behavior of Orange County Militia 182 

Two hundred Indians reported — man shot 183 

Time of some of Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck's men expired 183 



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PACE 

Gen. Clinton replies 183 

Plundered by the Militia. 184 

Indian villages destroyed 188 

Still another attack on Wawarsing 188 

Capt. Abram Deyo's men 188 

Ch.vpter XX 

History of farming at New Paltz 190 

The poor soil of Kettleborough 194 

Clover and plaster the first commercial fertilizers 194 

Ancient names of clearings on the Wallkill 194 

Racing horses 196 

Depression among the farmers 196 

The implements used by our Forefathers 19;^ 

The Xew Paltz turnpike 197 

Ch.m>ter XXI 

New Paltz village and town in 1820 199 

Springtown in 1820 203 

Houses north of our village in 1820 204 

Rontecoe in 1820 206 

Libertyville in 1820 208 

Ohioville in 1820 208 

Houses south of our village in 1820 209 

Butterville in 1820 212 

Plutarch in 1820 215 

Industries in this town in 1820 215 

Teachers about 1820 and earlier 216 

Alexander Doag 217 

Gilbert C. Rice 218 

Miss Ransome 218 

Chapter XXII 

The family of Louis Bevier the Patentee 223 

Jean Revier 227 

Abraham Bevier 229 

Samuel Bevier 230 

Louis Bevier 230 

Genealogy of the Bevier family 233 

Ch.\i-tek XXIII 

The Deyo family at New Paltz 253 

Pierre the Patentee 256 



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Christian, son of Pierre the Patentee 259 

Jacobus Deyo ^ 

Abraham Deyo, son of Pierre the Patentee 261 

Capt. Abraham Deyo ^4 

Soldiers in Capt. Abm. Deyo's Company 264 

Daniel Deyo ^^ 

Simeon Deyo ^^ 

Jonathan Deyo ^^° 

Philip Deyo ^^i 

The family of Hendricus, son of Pierre the Patentee 273 

Chapter XXIV 
The DuBois family at New Paltz 280 

Chapter XXV 
Abraham DnBois, the Patentee ^93 

Chapter XXVI 

The family of Isaac DuBois, one of the New Paltz Patentees 293 

Daniel, son of Isaac ^^^ 

Simon DuBois ^99 

Andries DuBois ^°^ 

Joseph DuBois ^02 

Benjamin DuBois ^^^ 

Chapter XXVII 

Solomon DuBois, son of Louis the Patentee 305 

Hendricus DuBois ^^^ 

Chapter XXVIII 

Louis DuBois, Jun., son of Louis the Patentee 3i4 

Louis, son of Louis, Jun ^^^7 

Jonathan, son of Louis. Jun ^i 

Nathaniel, son of Louis, Jun ^~~ 

Chapter XXIX 
Military service of Col. Lewis DuBois 325 

Chapter XXX 

The Freer family at New Paltz 349 

Hugo Senior, son of Hugo the Patentee 352 

Isaac, son of Hugo Senior 3«) 



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Jonas, son of Hugo Senior 361 

Abraham, son of Hugo tlit Patentee 363 

Jacob, son of Hugo the Patentee 364 

Jean, son of Hugo the Patentee 365 

Chaptek XXXI 

Abraham Hasbrouck, the Patentee 368 

Daniel, son of Abraham the Patentee 370 

Solomon, son of Abraham the Patentee 372 

Joseph, son of Abraham the Patentee 375 

Col. Abraham, son of Joseph 382 

Isaac, son of Joseph and grandson of Abraham the Patentee 386 

Jacob A., son of Joseph of Guilford 387 

Benjamin, son of Joseph and grandson of Abraham the Patentee. . 389 

Col. Jonathan, son of Joseph 390 

Rachel Hasbrouck's ride from Xewburgh to Guilford 393 

Benjamin, son of Abraham the Patents 304 

Ch.vptek XXXII 

The family of Jean Hasbrouck the Patentee 397 

The Stone Ridge Hasbroucks 402 

Ch.vptek XXXIII 

The LeFevre family in America 407 

The LeFevre family in New Paltz 409 

The homestead on the plains 418 

The Kettleborough LeFcvres 422 

The LeFevre family at BonteC" <v 432 

The Bloomingdale LeFevres 448 

Ch.vptek XXX 1\' 

The Auchmoody family 451 

Ch.M'TEk XXX\' 

The Mudd family 453 

Cii.M'Ter XXXVI 

The Hardenbergh family 455 

Col. Johannes Hardenbergh of Rosendale 460 

Ch.\pter XXXVII 

The Wurts family .\f>4 



CONTENTS xi 

Chapter XXXVIII 

PAGE 

Old Dvitch families at New Paltz and vicinity 4^7 

Chapter XXXIX 
The Low family at New Paltz .468 

Chapter XL 
The Klaar water (Clearwater) family 47o 

Chapter XLI 
The Ean family 474 

Chapter XLII 
The Van Wagenen family at New Paltz 479 

Chapter XLIII 

The Elting family in New Paltz 481 

Roelif, the first Elting in New Paltz 483 

Roelif Elting's children 484 

Josias Elting and his descendants 486 

The Elting homestead 487 

The Hurley Eltings 497 

Chapter XLIV 

Families living in the congregation but not in the Precinct of New 

Paltz 499 

The Schoonmaker family in Gardiner 499 

The Ronk family 500 

The Relyea family 50- 

The Smith family at Swartekill 503 

Chapter XLV 

Genealogy of the French settlers of New Paltz to the third gene- 
ration 505 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE 

Ralph LeFevre Frontispiece 

Mrs. Ralph LeFevre 3 

Original deed from the Indians 16-17 

Deed of gift to Jean Cottin 24 

Agreement to learn dressmaking trade 3-2 

Deed from Anthony Crispcll to Hugo Freer 35 

Tax list of 1712 90 

A famous old oak 125 

Old paper with signature of Rev. Pierre Daille I37 

The first stone church ^30 

The second stone church • '52 

Sky Top 220 

The Louis Bevier house at Marbletown 231 

The ancient document with signature of Pierre Deyo 258 

The Deyo house at New Paltz 262 

The house of Daniel Deyo at Ireland Corners 267 

House of Hendricus Deyo at Bontecoe 272 

Tombstone of Margerite Van Bummel. wife of Hendricus Deyo. . . 274 

Receipts with signatures of Louis DuBois, the Patentee 285 

Document with signature of Abraham DuBois. the Patentee 288 

Tombstone of Abraham DuBois, the Patentee 292 

The old DuBois house or fort in this village 295 

Tombstone of Daniel DuBois in graveyard in this village 298 

Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois 308 

House of Capt. Louis J. DuBois 320 

House of Col. Lewis DuBois at Marlborough 324 

The old Freer house in our village 348 

Letter from Jean Giron to Hugo Freer. Senior, and wife 355 

The Abraham Hasbrouck house in our village 367 

Tombstone of Joseph Hasbrouck in the old graveyard in this village 37b 

The Jean Hasbrouck house, now the Memorial House 396 

LeFevre tombstone in old burying ground in this village 416 

The house of .Abraham LeFevre. one of the first settlers at Kettle- 
borough 429 

House built by Maj. Isaac LeFevre at Bontecoe 436 

Scene on the Wallkill at Bontecoe 439 



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PAGE 

The hoiisc of Daniel LeFevre, great-graiuifailKT of the author 444 

House of Col. Abraham J. Hardenbergh at Guilford 459 

Ancient map of the Patent 462 

Ruins of the Ean house at Bontecoc 475 

The Eltinge homestead, originally the Bevier house 488 

The oldest brick house in the town 495 

Louis Bevier of Marbletown. . 506 



History of New Paltz 

CHAPTER I 

Events Preceding the Settlement 

WITH modesty, yet with confidence, we make the claim 
that the early history of no other portion of our land 
can excel in interest that of New Paltz. With the excep- 
tion of Kingston no other place in this part of the country 
was settled at so early a date. The New Paltz church was 
organized exactly forty years before the first church was 
erected in Poughkeepsie. Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck, grand- 
son of one of the early settlers of New Paltz, built Wash- 
ington's Headquarters at Newburgh. Col. Lewis DuBois, 
a great-grandson of one of the early settlers at New Paltz, 
built what was doubtless the first house at Marlborough, 
on the river front. Two other New Paltz men, John and 
Abram Bevier, were the first settlers in the town of Wa- 
warsing. 

Peter Guimar, of Moir. in Sanaigne, who was one of the 
pioneers of Orange county and one of the seven men who 
made a settlement in 1690 at what is now Cuddebackville, 
at the stone fort, which was for half a century an outpost 
of civilization, married Esther, daughter of Jean Hasbrouck, 
one of the New Paltz patentees. 

But it is not only because New Paltz was the cradle of 
surrounding settlements, nor only on account of its an- 
tiquity, that we claim for New Paltz the most interesting 
place in the history of the early settlements. It is not be- . 
cause the New Paltz patentees purchased the lands of the 



2 HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 

Indians before William Penn had performed a like gracious 
deed, with like peaceful results, in Pennsylvania ; it is not 
because New Paltz was one of the few Huguenot settle- 
ments in this Country, ami i)crhaps the only one in whicli 
the stock of original settlers was not speedily overwhelmed 
in a flood of new-comers from other European nationalities ; 
nor yet is it because the little community existed for half 
a century to some extent as a miniature repu]:)lic — must we 
say aristocracy? — in which the Dusine exercised judicial 
and legislative powers, and the church owned no higher 
authority than its own membership. No ; it is for none of 
these facts, though rendering the history of New Paltz so 
uni(jue and i)cculiar. that we claim for it the most interesting 
place in the narrative of early settlements. But it is for 
one other circumstance, coming down to our own day ; it 
is because at New Paltz, as in no other place in our country, 
the homesteads have been handed down in the family ever 
since the first settlement. In the house in which I was l)orn 
my father lived before me, my grandfather spent his days 
there, my great-grandfather dwelt there. A few rods off 
my great-great-grandfather's house was built. In the old 
street in our village the Deyo house, the DuBois house and 
the houses of the two Hasbrouck brothers came down in the 
same family for nearly two hundred years. 

While New I^altz was, to a great extent, the cradle of sur- 
rouufling towns, the Huguenots kept their grip on their own 
old homesteads, and their conservatism we consider a more 
remarkable point, by far, than the early date of the settlement. 
In church matters this point in their character is still more 
noticeable, and whether the settlement at New Paltz is acknowl- 
edged to be the most interesting of any in the country or not. 
there can scarcely be a doubt that this claim will be conceded 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 3 

in regard to the Reformed Church in our village. Over 200 
vears ago our church organized. By the grace of God it has 
grown and flourished from that time until the present day. 
For fifty years of its history the records, still in existence, were 
kept to a great extent in French ; for seventy years longer 
in the Holland tongue, and afterwards in English. But, now 
that we have stated what there is peculiar in the early history 
of New Paltz, we must go back to show the causes that led up 
to that settlement. 

Two hundred and twenty years have passed since the first 
settlers reared their luiml)lc homes in New Paltz. Of the his- 
tory previous to that time we know but little. Wo. only know 
that they left their native land, on account of religious perse- 
cution, and after a residence of a short period in that portion of 
Germany, known as the Paltz, or Palatinate, came to the New 
World, from 1660 to 1675. The history of the French Hugue- 
nots, in their own country for a century preceding, had been 
a history of blood. The Reformation had not been slow to 
take deep root, and among the names of French reformers is 
that of sturdy John Calvin, whose fame has spread wherever 
Protestantism has obtained a foothold ; but while, partly 
from political causes, the reformation succeeded in England 
and in the north of Germany, in France it had to fight, 
almost from the first, against the power of the court, the 
priesthood and the prevailing popular sentiment. Never- 
theless the Huguenots numbered in their ranks many of the 
nobility and a great portion of the most intelligent ]->eople. 
Three civil wars had raged between the Catholics and the 
Protestants. 

The massacre of St. Jiartholomew in 1572, which was 
planned by Catharine De Medici, the wicked mother of 
Charles IX, the king, and was intended to destroy the 



4 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

Protestants at one blow, had but strengthened their hands. 
Altliough outnumbered, ten to one. by the Catholics, they 
had gallantly sustained themselves in arms, upheld, in part, 
by moral support from Germany, as well as more tangible 
aid from Queen Elizabeth, of England. The death of 
Henry III left the Protestant Henry, of Navarre, as the 
legal heir to the crown, but the Catholics were determined 
that no heretic should sit on the throne of France. For 
years Henry waged an unequal war for his inheritance, 
with a courage and a gallantry that made his name famous, 
but the odds were too great ; he found himself forced to 
give up his religion or continue a hopeless contest. He 
chose the former alternative, declaring that "the crown was 
worth a mass." Shortly afterward, in 1598, he granted the 
celebrated Edict of Nantes^ which secured to Protestants 
freedom of conscience and all political and religious rights. 
In 1610 Henry met liis death at the hands of an assassin, 
and the Protestants being left without a protector their 
troubles again commenced. In 1628 Rochelle, which had 
been their stronghold and had been in their possession for 
seventy years, was taken, after a siege of fourteen months, 
during which so desperate a resistance was made that the 
population of the city was reduced, by war and famine, from 
30,000 to 5.000 souls. Notwithstanding that Rochelle was 
wrested from their grasp, while Richelieu managed the 
realm, yet this was done rather as a political measure, be- 
cause Protestantism threatened to become a state within a 
state, than for the purpose of religious persecution. Riche- 
lieu was no bigot ; in the thirty-years' war he aided the 
Protestants and the Huguenots could not complain nuich 
of persecution during his administration or that of his suc- 
cessor, Mazarin. lUit frum the time of Mazarin's death, 



HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 5 

in 1661. when Louis XI\" himself assumed the reins of 
authority, until the formal revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 
in 1685, which was the last act in a series of persecutions, 
the Protestants of France suffered greatly. Before the 
fonnal revocation of the Edict whole troops of dissolute 
soldiers were let loose upon them, and frightful barbarities 
followed. 

Half a million of subjects of the French king left their 
native country and fled to foreign lands. Borne on this 
w^ave of immigration and prizing liberty of conscience above 
everything else, the brave-hearted men, who afterward set- 
tled New Paltz, fled across the frontier, and found an asylum 
in that part of Germany knowm as the Palatinate or Paltz — 
the name being borne now only by a castle on the Rhine. 
Here they could not long remain in peace, for the armies of 
their cruel monarch, in the wars which he almost constantly 
carried on with other European powers, repeatedly invaded 
and ravaged the Palatinate. In 1664 an army under Tu- 
renne, one of his generals, desolated that province without 
mercy, and it may be at this time some of our forefathers 
resolved to cross the Atlantic and escape from their merci- 
less foes. 

At this time the Huguenots were flying to diflferent por- 
tions of the New World, as well as Europe, for protection. 
As early as 1625 several families settled in New York, then 
in possession of the Dutch, and were the first permanent 
settlers. Others were to be found in Virginia, Rhode Island, 
Massachusetts, and especially in South Carolina, where a 
large portion of the most honored names are of Huguenot 
origin. Scattered like leaves by the autumn blast, they 
were tossed hither and thither, and it is probable that by 
1663 a score or more had found their way to Kingston — 



6 HISTORY OF Mill' PALTZ 

called K^oims l)y the Dutch — then a flourishing village. 
\\'e know that Louis DuBois, who was one of the first New 
Paltz immigrants, had been there two or three years at 
least before tliat time. In i6<33 Kingston was burned by 
the hulians. and the wife and three children of Louis Du- 
Bois. the Walloon, as he was called, were among those 
carried away captive. 

This Louis DuBois, who became the leader of the settle- 
ment at New Paltz. was usually called Louis, the Walloon, 
the Walloons being the residents of that part of Flanders 
lying between the Scheldt and Lys. He was born in the 
hamlet of Wicres. near Lille, in the province of Artois. in 
French Flanders, October 2"^, 1626, and was the son of Chre- 
tien DuBois. whose farm is still {K)inted out. Louis moved 
to Manheim. on the Rhine, the capital of the Palatinate, 
or Paltz. a little principality, now incorporated in Baden, 
ami there he married Catharine Blancon, the daughter of a 
burgher residing there, named Matthew Blancon, who was 
also a native of Artois. Manheim was. at that time, a refuge 
for the Protestants from the neighboring parts of France, 
and r.aird. in his Huguenot Emigration, says: "The Le- 
Fevers, Hasbroucks, Crispells, etc., were associated with 
Louis DuBois at Manheim." 

Anthony Crispell was the first of the New Paltz patentees 
to come to America. He came in company with his father- 
in-law, Matthew Blanchan,* on the Gilded Otter, arriving at 
New York in June. 1660. Governor Stuyvesant gave Blan- 
chan a letter to Sergeant Romp, in Esopus. whither they at 
once proceeded. 

Louis DuBois. who was also a son-in-law of Blanchan, 
probably came over on the ship St. Jan Baptist, which 

* Thftt^ IK no unifoniiitv in the o«rljr rvcordv in the rjielling of French surnames and 
thf rcforr- none is •itenipteiJ to thii> book. 



HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 7 

landed August 6, 1661. Blanohan had sojourned in Eng- 
land before crossing the ocean, and probably his two sons- 
in-law. likewise. Blanchan, DuBois and Crispell all got 
land at Hurley. In 1661 Louis DuBois' third son, Jacob, 
was presented for baptism at the church at Kingston, as 
still shown by the church register, that being one of the 
earliest entries. 

In 1663, June 10, Hurley and part of Kingston were 
burned by the Indians, and the wife of Louis DuBois and 
three children wore among those carried away captive. 
Likewise the two children of Matthew Blanchan, Jr.. and 
the wife and child of Anthony Crispell. 

Three months afterward an expedition under Captain 
Kregier, sent from New York, recovered the captives ; sur- 
prising the Indians at their fort near the Hogabergh. in 
Shawangunk. The story, which is dear to the Huguenot 
heart of New Paltz, is that when Captain Kregier and his 
company, directed by an Indian, attacked the savages at 
their place of refuge near the Shawangunk Kill, they were 
about to burn one or more captives at the stake, and the 
women commenced singing the 137th Psalm, which so 
pleased the red men that they deferred the proposed death 
by torture, and in the meantime Captain Kregier's band, 
with Louis DuBois and others, arrived and rescued the cap- 
tives from a horrible death. Louis DuBois himself killing 
with his sword an Indian who was in advance of the rest 
before the alarm could be raised. Captain Kregier's report 
says nothing about this. However, we shall not give up 
the tradition as it contains nothing irreconcilable with the 
report of Captain Kregier, which deals mainly with the 
fighting done by his soldiers, while tradition would dwell 
more upon the condition of the captives. 



8 HISTORY or XEir PALTZ 

The tradition concerning^ the impending fate of the wife 
of Louis Duliois at the time of rescue is not credited by Mr. 
E. M. Ruttenber, the Orange county historian, who states 
his objections as follows : 

■"The story was repudiated as a statement of fact, first, 
on the authority of Indian customs. We do not recall a 
single instance where a woman was burned at the stake by 
the Indians. They killed female prisoners on the march 
sometimes, when they were too feeble to keep up, but very 
rarely indeed after reaching camp. — Mrs. DuBois and her 
companions had been prisoners from June 19th to Septem- 
ber 5th. or nearly tliree months before they were rescued 
from captivity. During all that time they had been guarded 
carefully at the castle of the Indians, and held for ransom 
or exchange, to which end negotiations had been opened, 
the Indians asking especially the return of some of their 
chiefs who had been sent to Cura^oa and sold as slaves by 
Governor Stuyvesant. 

Second : documentary evidence concerning the events 
of that i)eriod is entirely against the tradition. The writ- 
ten record is. that when the Dutch forces surprised the In- 
dians, the latter were busy in constructing a tliird angle to 
their fort for the purpose of strengthening it. instead of 
being engaged in preparations for burning prisoners. (See 
Kregier's Journal.) The prisoners were found alive and 
well, and no complaint is recorded of any ill treaniient, not 
even that their heads had been shaved and painted, as had 
been customary. Every night, says the record, they were 
removed from the castle to the woods, lest the Dutch should 
recover them l)efore negotiations for their release were con- 
summated. TIk- entire drift of tin- record narrative is 



HISTORY or SEW PALTZ 9 

against even the proljability of an intention to Inirn, much 
more so of preparation to do so." 

In answer to Mr. Ruttenber's objections we will say, that 
it is probable that the Indians had heard of the presence of 
the Dutch soldiers at Kingston, but supposed they would 
tarry there longer before marching on their stronghold, 
and that being enraged at the failure of their negotiations 
for the exchange of their captives for their chiefs who were 
prisoners at Curagoa, they detemiined to burn them at the 

stake. 

Tradition states that during the advance for the rescue of 
the captives, an Indian, who was no doubt a scout and had 
fallen asleep, was killed by Louis DuBois with his sword 
near Libertyville, before the savage had opportunity to let 
fly his arrow. His death prevented the news of the ap- 
proach of the white men being given to their savage foes. 
The Indians at the fort were taken by surprise ; a squaw, 
named Basha, who had gone to the spring a short distance 
north of the fort for water, raised an alarm and Louis Du- 
Bois shot her with his gun and she fell in the spring, which 
still bears her name. The settler's dogs, which had accom- 
panied the party, rushed on and the cry "White men's dogs- 
was raised. The Indians in the ensuing fight lost their chief 
and twenty-one men killed and thirteen prisoners. Captain 
Kregier lost five men killed and six wounded. He recovered 
twentv-three women and children who had been captured 
by the Indians at Kingston and Hurley. The Indian fort 
was surrounded with palisades as thick as a man's body 
and fifteen feet high, but it was not yet completed. The 
surprise of the Indians was so complete that tradition states 
that Louis DuBois's wife started to run with the others 
at first, but was recalled by the voice of her husband. 



10 HISTORy UJ- XEllPALTZ 

exclaiminp; in his excitement, "Stop, 'Trcne, or I'll shoot 
you." 

In i6t:)^ ilie Lcleyre l)roihers. Simon and Andre, came to 
Kingston, and in April united witli the church at that place. 
They had been at Manheim in the Palatinate, but their 
native spot in France is not known. It is possible that they 
were of the kindred of James LeFevre, the great French 
preacher and reformer, who was from Etaples, on the Eng- 
lish channel, in the ancient province of Picardy. They were 
unmarried men, probably quite young, when they came to 
Kingston. 

The English conquest of the New Netherlands took place 
at about this date, and the unsettled condition of the pro- 
vinces prevented the coming of other Huguenots to King- 
ston for a time. 

In the spring of 1673 came Jean Hasbrouck and his wife, 
.Anna, daughter of Christian Deyo, and their two unmarried 
daughters, Mary and Hester. Jean and his brother, Abra- 
ham, who came later, were natives of Calais. Jean brought 
with him his certificate of church membership. 

In 1673, likewise came Louis Bevier, who was a cousin 
of the Hasbrouck brothers, and his wife, Maria LePdan. 

About three years later came Hugo Freer and his wife, 
Mary Hays, and tluir three eliildren, Hugo. .Abraham and 
Isaac. 

.Abraham Hasbrouck sailed from Amsterdam in 1675 
and landed at Boston. Shortly after he joined his brother 
in Kingston. 

Probably the last of the Patentees to cross the ocean were 
Christian Deyo and his son, Pierre. Pierre's wife, Agatha 
Nickol, and their child came with them ; likewise his three 
unmarried sisters, .Maria. Elizabeth and Margaret, who 



HISrORY OF NEW P ALT Z ii 

afterwards became the wives respectively of Abraham Has- 
brouck, Simon LeFever and Abraham DuBois. 

There was now quite a number of Huguenots at Kingston 
and Hurley. No doubt they longed for a settlement of their 
own where they might speak their own language and form 
a community by themselves. Kingston was dropping its 
character as a trading post. The traffic with the Indians, 
in furs, was becoming less profitable. The cultivation of 
the soil was becoming more and more a necessary occupa- 
tion. The fertile lowlands of the Wallkill had doubtless 
recurred again and again to the recollection of Louis DuBois. 
In the meantime the colony of New York had finally passed 
from the control of the Dutch to the English. Edmund 
Andross was the Colonial Governor. Among the Hugue- 
not settlers at Kingston, at this time, was Abraham Has- 
brouck. He had served with Edmund Andross in the Eng- 
lish army. He was a native of Calais ; had emigrated to 
Manheim, and in 1673 to America, settling finally in Esopus 

The Huguenots, being desirous of forming a settlement 
of their own, were indebted, to some extent, to the ac- 
quaintanceship of Abraham Hasbrouck with Governor An- 
dross for the grant of so fine a tract as they obtained. 
It is related that Governor Andross wanted them to take 
more land along the river to the southward, as far as Mur- 
derer's Creek, but upon examining the land they found it so 
rough they declared they did not want it. 

Four months previous to the grant from Governor An- 
dross the land was purchased of the Indians, and the article 
signed bestowing upon Louis DuBois and his associates the 
territory comprising the Paltz patent, occupying all the 
present town of Lloyd, about two-thirds of New Paltz, one- 
third of Esopus and one-fnurth of Rosendale. In the records 



I-.' HISTORY or XEir PALTZ 

of the patentees — as these twelve men were called — long 
preserved in an ancient trunk in the Huguenot Bank at New 
Paltz. is the copy of the document signed by the Indians 
on their part, and by Louis DuBois and his associates; like- 
wise by Jan Eltinge and (tthers, as witnesses. This is dated 
May 26. 1677. Here is likewise the confirmation or grant 
from Governor Andross, covering the same territory, dated 
September 29. 1677. The four corners of the patent were 
Moggonck — now Mohonk ; Juffrou's Hook, the point in the 
Hudson where the town line between Lloyd and Marl- 
borough strikes the river; Rapoos — Pell's Island, and Tower 
a Toque, a point of white rocks in the Shawangunks near 
Rosendale Plains. 

The papers relating to the matter in the Patentees' trunk 
are in Dutch and are translated liy Rev. Ame Vennema as 
follows : 

By approbation of his Excellency Governor Edmond An- 
dras, dated April 28. 1677, an agreement is made on this 
date, the 26th of May. of the year 1677. for the purchase of 
certain lands, between the parties herein named and the un- 
dersigned Esopus Indians. 

Matsayay, Nekahakaway. Magakahas, Assinnerakan, \\'a- 
wawanis acknowledge to have sold to Lowies du Booys 
and his partners the land described as follows : Beginning 
from the high hills at a place named Moggonck, from thence 
south-east toward the river to a point named Juft'rous 
Hoock, lying in the Long Reach, named by the Indians 
Magaatramis. then north up along the river to the island 
called by the Indians Raphoes, then west toward the high 
Iiills to a place called W'aratahaes and Tawaenta<|ui, along 
the high hills south-west to Moggonck. being described by 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 13 

the four corners with everything inckulcd within these boun- 
daries, hills, dales, waters, etc., and a right of way to the 
Ronduyt kill as directly as it can be found, and also that the 
Indians shall have the same right to hunt and to fish as the 
Christians, for which land the Indians have agreed to accept 
the articles here specified: 

40 kettles, 10 large, 30 small ; 40 axes ; 40 adzes ; 40 shirts ; 
400 fathoms of white net-work ; 300 fathoms of black net- 
work ; 60 pairs of stockings, half small sizes ; 100 bars of 
lead ; i keg of powder ; 100 knives ; 4 kegs of wine ; 40 oars ; 
40 pieces of "dulifel" (heavy woolen cloth) ; 60 blankets ; 
100 needles; 100 awls; i measure of tobacco; 2 horses— 
I stallion, i mare : 

Parties on both sides acknowledge to be fully satisfied 
herewith and have affixed their own signatures ad ut supra. 
Matsaya x his mark ; Waehtonck x his mark ; Seneraken 
X his mark; Magakahoos x his mark; Wawateanis x his 
mark; Lowies Du Booys ; Christian de Yoo x his mark; 
Abraham Haesbroecq ; Andrie Lefeber ; Jan Broecq ; Piere 
Doyo; Anthony Crespel ; Abraham Du Booys; Hugo 
Freer; Isaack D. Boojs; Symon Lefeber. 

Witnesses: Jan Eltinge ; Jacomeyntje Sleght ; Jan Mat- 

tyse. Agrees with the original. W. La: Montague, Secry. 

I do allow of the within Bargaine and shall Grant patents 

for y Same when payments made accordingly before niee 

or Magistrates of Esopus. 

Andross. 

We the undersigned persons, former owners of the land 
sold to Lowies du Booys and his partners acknowledge to 
have been fully satisfied by them according to agreement, 



14 HISTORY or \JLir PALTZ 

we therefore transfer the designated land with a free right 
of way for them and their heirs, and relinquishing ferever 
our rij,dit and title, will protect them against further claims, 
in tdken whereof we have affixed our signatures in the pres- 
ence of the Justice, Sheriff. Magistrates and Bystanders, 
on the 15 September. 1677, at Hurley. Esopus Sackmakers, 
Witnesses: Sewakuny x his mark; Hamerwack x his 
mark; Manvest x her mark; Mahente; Papoehkies x his 
mark ; Pochquqet x his mark ; Haroman x his mark ; Pago- 
tamin x his mark; Haromini x his mark; \\'ingatiek x his 
mark ; W'issinahkan x his mark ; Mattawessick x his mark ; 
Matsayay x his mark; Asserwvaka x his mark; Umtronok 
X his mark ; W'awanies x sister in his absence called W'ara- 
wenhtow ; Magakhoos x her mark ; Wawejask x his mark ; 
Xawas X his mark ; Tomaehkapray x his mark ; Sagaro- 
wanto X his mark ; Sawanawams x his mark ; Machkamoeke 
X his mark. 

Witnesses : Jan Eltinge ; Roelof Henderyckx ; John Ward ; 
Gars X Harris ; Albert Jansen. 

Testis: Thomas Chambers; Hall Sherrife; Wessel Ten 
Broeck ; Dirck Schepmoes ; Hendrik Jochensen. Joost de Yadus ; 
Garit x Cornelise ; Lambert x Huybertse. 

Mattay has publicly proclaimed and acknowledged in the 
presence of all the Indian bystanders that the land had been 
fully paid for in which all coucurrcd. 

Testis: W : Montague. Seer. 

The grant by Gov. Edmund Andross. confirming this pur- 
chase from the Indians, is in English as follows: 

Edmund Andros, I-lsqr. 

Seigneur of Sansmarez. Lieut, t Governor Generall under 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 15 

his Royall Highness : James Duke of Yorke & Albany &c. 
of all his Territoryes in America. Jllicrcas there is a cer- 
tain piece of Land att Esopus, the which by my approba- 
con and Consent, hath been purchased of the Indian Pro- 
prietors, by Lewis DuBois and J'artners; The said Land 
lyeing on the South side of the Redoute Creek or Kill, be- 
ginning from the High Hills called Moggonck, from thence 
stretching South East neare the Great River, to a certain 
Point or Hooke, called the Jeuffrous Hoocke, lyeing in the 
long Reach named by the Indyans Magaatramis, then North 
up alengst the River to an Island in a Crooked Elbow in 
the Beginning of the Long Reach called by^ the Indyans 
Raphoos, then West, on to the High Hills, to a place called 
Waratahacs and Tawaratague, and so alongst the said High 
Hills South ^^'est to Moggonck aforesaid ; All which hath 
by the Magistrates of Esopus been certifyed unto mee, to 
have been publiqucly bought and paid for in their presence ; 
As by the returne from theme doth and may appeare : 
Knoz\.' yce that by vertue of his Ma, lies Letters Patents, 
and the Commission and authority unto mee given by his 
Royall Highness, I have given, Ratifyed, confirmed and 
granted, and by these presents doe hereby give, ratify, con- 
firmc & grant unto the said Lewis DuBois and Partners, 
Thatt is to say. Christian Doyo, Abraham Haesbroecq, 
Andries Lefevre, Jean Broecq, Pierre Doyo, Laurens Biverie. 
Anthony Crespell, Abraham DuBois, Hugo Frere, Isaack 
DuBois, and Symeon LeFevre, their heyres and Assignes. 
the afore recited piece of Land and premises; Together 
with all the Lands, Soyles, Woods, Hills, Dales, meadowes, 
pastures, Marshes, Lakes, waters. Rivers, fishing. Hawking, 
Hunting and fowling, and all other Profitts, Commoditys. 
and Emoluments whatsoever to the said piece i>f land and 



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i8 HISTORV OF Mill' PALTZ 

premises belonging, with their & every of their appurte- 
nances, & of every part and parcell thereof ; To have and 
to hold the said piece of Land and Premises, with all and 
Singular the appurtenances unto the said Lewis DuBois 
and partners their heyrcs and Assignes, to the proper use 
and behoofe of him the said Lewis DuBois and jiartners 
their heyres and Assignes for ever. And that the j^lanta- 
cons which shall bee settled upon the said piece of land bee 
a Township, and that the Iniiabitants to have liberty to 
make a High Way between tluni and the Redout Creeke or 
Kill for their Convenience. Hee, the said Lewis DuBois 
and partners their heyres and Assigns, Returning due Sur- 
veys & makeing improvem't thereon according to Law ; 
And Yielding and paying therefore yearely and every yearc 
unto his Royall Highnesse use as an acknowledgment or 
Ouitt Rent att the Redout in Esopus five bushells of good 
\\ inter Wheat unto such Ofificer or Officers as shall be 
empowered to receive the same : 

Given under my hand and Sealed with y Scale of the 
Province in New Yorke this 29th day of September in the 
29th yeare of his Ma'ties Reigne. Anno Domini 1677. 

Andross. 

Examined by nice, 

Matthias: Nicolls, Seer. 

The tinal actifjn taken by Governor Andros in regard to 
granting the patent appears in the DocunKiitary History 
of New York as follows : 

L'pon recpiest of Louis DuBois and partners at Esopus, 
that they may have Liberty to goe and settle upon the land 
by them purchased on the South side of the Redout Creek, 
at their first convenience, these are to certifv that tliev have 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 19 

Liberty so to do, Provided they build a Redoute there first 
for a place of Retreat and Safeguard upon Occasion : 
Action in New York, November, 1677. E. Andros. 

All Probably Lived at Hurley— ^the New Village (Three 
Miles from Kingston) 

From the Kingston records it appears that Andre LeFevre 
one of the New Paltz Patentees owned a house and lot at 
Hurley which he sold, June 29, 1680, to Hyman Allertson 
Roosa. This house he had bought of the executors of Cor- 
nelius Wynkoop. It also appears from the same records that 
about 1678 Simon LeFevre the Patentee transferred for his 
father-in-law Christian Deyo a lot and house at Flurlcy to 
Cornelius Wolverson. 

Thus is aflforded additional evidence that the New Paltz 
Patentees were residents of Hurley before coming to New 
Paltz. We know of no evidence that a single one of the num- 
ber lived in Kingston. It has been shown that Anthony Cris- 
pell lived at Hurley and never moved to New Paltz, the treaty 
with the Indians was made at Hurley, Louis DuBois was a 
magistrate at Hurley, Abraham Hasbrouck the Patentee mar- 
ried the daughter of Christian Deyo at Hurley. Abraham 
Deyo, son of Pierre the Patentee was born at the same place. 
Quite possibly we may yet find houses once owned by New 
Paltz Patentees still standing in the ancient village of Hurley. 
It would no doubt be laborious but perhaps not impossible to 
trace the ownership down to the present day. 



20 HISrORV OP NEW PALTZ 



CHAPTER II 

All the I->enchmen at Kingston did not move to Nev 
Paltz. On the cluirch records at the former place are 
found the names of Perrinc. Dcpuy, Gasheric, Delemater 
and others, not to be found on the church book at New 
Paltz. Anthony Crispell, although having a share in the 
New Paltz patent, never moved there, but remained at 
Hurley. The eleven who came to New Paltz were, to a 
considerable extent, related to each other. Abram and 
Isaac DuBois, the latter but eighteen years of age, were the 
sons of Louis ; the two Deyos were father and son. The 
two Hasbroucks were brothers, and so were the two Le- 
Fcvers. Four of the ])atentces. Abram DuBois. the two 
Hasbrouck brothers and Simon Lel"'ever, married the four 
daughters of Christian Deyo, who was usually called Grand- 
pere or Grandfather. Andrics LcFever did not marry. 

From Kingston the little party came to New Paltz in 
three carts, and the spot of thoir encampment, about a 
mile south of the village, on the west side of the W'alkill, 
is still known as "Tri-Cor." in English three carts. Tra- 
dition relates that when they alighted one of the party read 
for them the 37th Psalm. 

In 1686. Louis DuBois. who had been the leader of the 
settlement, returned from New Paltz to Kingston, where 
he purchased a house, and lived ten years, until his deatli 
in 1696. His son, Isaac, had died six years before at the 
early age of thirty-one. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 21 

More Land Wanted 

At the outset the Patentees had quite as much land as 
they wanted, but it was only a few years before they were 
ready to acquire more land, as shown by the following paper 
in the Patentees' trunk in the Dutch language, dated i68|, 
applying for permission to purchase lands of the Indians, 
which translated literally reads as follows : 

To the Hon. Justice of the Court now in session at Kingston, 

We citizens of New Paltz inform your Honor that we 
must keep a great fence between us and the Indians, and 
that the Indians are disposed to sell us their land to their 
New Indian Fort. We therefore humbly petition your 
Honor to give us a further hearing upon the approval of 
His Excellency the Governor, and we will then give satis- 
faction to the Indians. We remain your servants, In the 
name of the citizens of New Paltz. 

Abraham Hasbrouck. 
Jean Hasbrouck, 
Louis Baijvier. 

Permission is granted to the citizens of New Paltz to pur- 
chase of the Indians, on approval of His Excellency the 
Governor, the unpurchased lands, to wit : Sewakanamie and 
Sewankonck. to the New Indian Fort. 

By order of the Special Session Court held in Kingston. 
February 13, i68|. 

Rv.nd d La Monragerh. 

This purchase of land was never made. 



21 III STORY OV NEW PALTZ 

Deed of (in r to Jkan Cottin, the Schoolmaster 

To the general reader lliere is no paper in the Freer col- 
lection of greater interest than the copy of the deed of gift 
to Jean C'ottiii, the schoolmaster, of a house and lot in tlie 
little settlement in it>8y, just eleven years after the first 
settlers arrived on the ground. The copy was made in 
1707. The paper is in good French, the writing legible, 
but the lines and the words in tlic lines crowded so close 
together that it is difficult to read it on that account. A 
rough translation is as follows : 

We the undersigned gentlemen, resident proprietors of 
the twelve parts of the village of New Paltz, a dependency 
of Kingston, county of Ulster, province of New York, certify 
that 01 our good will and to give pleasure to Jean Cottin, 
schoolmaster at said Paltz, we to him have given gratu- 
itously a little cottage to affortl him a home, situate at said 
Paltz, at the end of the street on the left hand near the 
large clearing (creupelbose) extending one "lizier" to the 
place reserved for building the church and continuing in a 
straight line to the edge of the clearing, thence one "lizier" 
to the extremity of the clearing to the north, thence running 
along the street and continuing to the west (couchant soliel) 
as far as the extremity of the clearing, and we guarantee the 
said Cottin that he shall be placed in possession without 
any troubK- and we allow said Cottin to cut wood convenient 
to his purpose for building and he is given the pasturage 
for two cows and their calves ami a mare and colt. We the 
proprietors at the same time agree among ourselves, for the 
interi";t of our own homes to recjuest said Cottin that he will 
not sell the above mentioned i>roi)erty to any one not of 



HISTORY OF XEir FALTZ 23 

good life and manners, and we are not to keep said Cottin 
as schoolmaster longer than we think fit and proper. 

Done at New Paltz, August i, 1689. 

Thus signed : Abraham hasbroucq, pierre doio, Jean has- 
broucq has made his mark HB, hugue frere has made liis 
mark X, Abraham dubois, Isaac dubois, Louis dubois, An- 
thoine Crespel, Louis Beviere, Lisbette doyau has made 
her mark E. D. 

We Anthoine Crespel and Estienne Gacherie certify that 
this copy is true, just and conformable. In evidence we 
have signed. 

Anthoine Crespel. 

Estienne Gasherie. 

Kingston, October 9, 1707. 

In presence of me, 

D. Wynkoop, 

Justice of Peace. 

This deed of gift throws a strong light on the character 
of the Huguenot settlers at New Paltz. It shows that they 
highly prized education, that they already had a school- 
master, only eleven years after the date of the first settle- 
ment, and that they treated him with great kindness ; it 
shows, moreover, that they had a lot reserved for a church, 
that they objected to a sale of property to any person "not 
of good life and manners." and tlicir business ideas were 
sufficiently practical that they did not care to bind them- 
selves to employ Jean Cottin as schoolmaster longer than 
they saw fit and proper. 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 25 

The French Schoolmasters at New Paltz 

In llie oarly history of New Paltz two men stand out as 
pastors and two as schoolmasters in the little community. 
The two French pastors, Rev. Pierre Daillie and Rev. David 
Bonrepos have had their names and memories preserved in 
the church records, but it is only within the past few years 
that documents have been brought to light showing who it 
was that taught the school in those early days. In the same 
building in which the Huguenot pastors preached the gospel 
and baptised the children on their occasional visits to New 
Paltz, in the years preceding 1700, two other Huguenots of 
learning and ability gathered their little tlock to instruct 
them in secular learning on week days and probably in re- 
ligious matters on the Sabbath, in the absence of the pastor. 

It is greatly to the credit of the New Paltz people that 
they organized a school as well as a church at so early a 
date. In their kind and lil)eral treatment of their instruc- 
tors they set an example to people of the present day. 

Neither of these French schoolmasters left descendants. 
One bequeathed his little property to the church at New 
Paltz ; the other his considerable estate to the church at 
Kingston. 

From 1696 to 1700 the children in the little community 
were taught by Jean Tebenin, as is shown by the certificate, 
in French, among the papers that have come down in the 
family of Isaac DuBois the Patentee, which is as follows: 

Nous Ministers & Anciens de L'I\glisc frangoise aux palls 
de la province del la XoK' ^'ork dans LWrnerifiue. certifions 
que le Sr. Jean Tebenin ayant demeure avec nous pendant 
I'espace de quatre ans pour maistre d'escole & pour L'lnstruc- 
tion de nos enfans, a toujours fait le devoir d' un hon & 



26 nisroRV Of xew paltz 

veritable christien, freciuente nos saintes assembles. & participe 
a sacrenient de la cene du Siegneur — c'est pourquoi Nous le 
reconiinendons. [There is here a small portion of the docu- 
ment iik'i^^ibie, but tlic signatures are plain.] 
Aux palls Of May 1700. 

D. Bonrepos, pasteur. 

Jean hasbrouck anciens. 

* * Bayvier. 

On the back of the paper is written: 
Atestation pour Jean Tebenin faite Au pals Lan 1700. 
That is : 

Attestation for Jean 'J'ebenin, made at the I'altz in the 
year 1700. 

Translation. 

\W'. minister and elders, of the French church at the Paltz 
of the province of New York in America, certify that Mr. 
Jean Tebenin having lived with us during the space of four 
years for schoolmaster and for the instruction of our chil- 
dren, has always done the duty of a good and true Chris- 
tian, frequented our holy assemblies and partaken of the 
sacrament of the Lord's supper — therefore we recommend 
him. 

At Paltz. the — May. 1700. D. Bonrepos, Pastor. 

Jean hasbrouck. 
Bayvier, Elders. 

Jean Tebenin may have again taught the school at a 
later date. We have no evidence on this point. He cer- 
tainly lived at New Paltz at a much later date. In his wilU 
dated in 1730. and preserved in the Patentees' trunk, he 
gives his property to the church at Xew Paltz. witli the 
special refpiest that if the French language should cease to 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 27 

be used his copy of the Bible be sold and the proceeds 
given to the poor. 

As the Huguenots at that time had no religious schools 
or seminaries, either in France or America, the poor old 
schoolmaster's apprehension was sure to be realized. When 
the old French ministers were dead there was none edu- 
cated in the French tongue to stand in their stead. 

We have no further information concerning Jean Tebenin 
except that he was godfather at one or two baptisms of 
children at New Paltz. 

The other French schoolmaster at New Paltz was Jean 
Cottin. He was a prominent man in the community, and 
lived many years at New Paltz. Afterwards he moved to 
Kingston, married the widow of Louis DuBois the Patentee 
and for many years carried on the mercantile business. 

Jean Cottin's name appears on the church records at New 
Paltz in 1690 as godfather at the baptism of Hendricus, son 
of Pierre Deyo. He was the schoolmaster as early as 1689. 
For about ten years after this date he resided at New Paltz. 

In 1701. Jean Cottin sold a house and lot in this village 
to Hugo Freer, the deed, in French, being still among the 
Freer papers. This was certainly the house and lot which 
the New Paltz people had given him. the deed of gift being 
turned over to the purchaser and still preserved among his 
papers. 

We have no record showing the date of the marriage of 
Jean Cottin and Catharine, widow of Louis DuBois the 
Patentee. Tiic first record wc have bearing on this point is 
in 1703, when at the baptism of a negro slave girl in the 
church at Kingston she promises to serve her mistress, 
Catharine, and her master, Jean Cottin, faithfully as long 
as they live and she shall then be free. 



28 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

The widow of Louis DuBois the Patentee was a rich 
woman for those days. In his will Louis had performed 
the very unusual act of bestowing on her the full half of the 
property, in case she should marry again. Louis had moved 
from New Paltz to Kingston in 1686. and died there ten 
years later. Mrs. DuP.ois' father, Matthew Blanshan, was 
a very rich man. Probably much of the property in the 
family had come from him. 

]>c that as it may, Jean Cottin sold his house and lot at 
New Paltz, moved to Kingston, married the widow of Louis 
DuP»ois and engaged in the mercantile business, which he 
carried on for about twenty years. Among the Freer papers 
are a number with his signature. One is written in Eng- 
lish, with a delightful I'Vcnch brogue. In a letter still pre- 
served among these old papers Mr. Cottin duns the recip- 
ient in a very polite manner, saying: "You pay others; me 
you neglect." 

When Jean Cottin died, about 1723, he left his property, 
including his account books, which were in the French lan- 
guage, to the church at Kingston. These account books 
arc still in the chest containing the papers of the Kingston 
church. 

Houses Built by tiik P.vtenteks 

The first settlers all undoubtedly lived on what is now 
called Huguenot street in this village. About thirty years 
after the first scttlcnuiU. the log houses of the pioneers 
began to be superseded by the stone houses which have 
come down to the present day. 

Commencing on the south end of the street, on the west, 
Jean Hasbrouck lived on the site, now the Memorial House. 
This house bears the date of 1712, and there is not the 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 29 

shadow of a doubt that it came straight down from Jean to 
his son. Jacob, then to his son. Jacob, Jr., then to his son, 
Colonel Josiah, then to his son, Levi, from whom it passed 
to his son, Josiah, after whose death it was sold with his 
other real estate and became the property of Jesse Eltinge. 

The house across the street now owned and occupied 
by Abm. D. Brodhead and previously by his grandfather, 
Sheriff Abm. A. Deyo, Jr., has come straight down from 
one Abm. Deyo to another from the time of the first Abm., 
grandson of Christian, the patentee. 

In this house Senator Jacob Hardcnburgh was born, his 
father, Richard Hardenburgh, renting the farm at this time, 
while its owner. Judge Abm. A. Deyo, resided at Modena. 

The house now owned and occupied by Mrs. Mary Du- 
Bois Berry's heirs has come as straight down in the family 
as either the Hasbrouck or Deyo houses mentioned. This 
house still bears, in large iron figures, the date of its erection, 
1705, and on the eastern wall, fronting on the street, may 
be seen the port holes — now closed with brick — which, in 
the ancient times, had been provided as precautions, un- 
needed, however, against the attacks of the savages. 

Across the street, with its gable-end to the road, stands 
the original Bevier house, which, however, passed into the 
possession of the Eltings considerably over 100 years ago. 
This was the Elting store for a considerable time before the 
Revolutionary war, and between this establishment and the 
Hasbrouck store, in the house first described, the sharpest 
kind of ri\alry existed. In the chimney of this house, 
until recently, the date, 1735, was to be seen. I'ut the house 
was evidently built at two diflferent times, and the portion 
with the chimney and date quite certainly was built last. 

Passing on still further to the north, the next house, now 



30 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

owned by Isaiah Hasbrouck, has come straight down from 
Abni. Hasbrouck, the patentee. We have traced its own- 
ership to the widow of Daniel, son of Abm., the patentee. 

The house of Simon LeFever, the patentee, stood on the 
north end of the present church yard. It passed from the 
possession of Simon to his son, Andries, then to his son, 
Simon, then to his son, Andries, usually called Flagus, 
who died about 1811, and left no son. This house was torn 
down when the present brick church was built, and the 
stone went into the foundation of the church edifice. 

We have now come to the last stone house on this street. 
This was the Freer house, but the Freers moved out of the 
village 160 years ago, and about 100 years ago this house 
was occupied for a long time by the Lows. 

We have now stated where each of the patentees lived 
except Abrain and Isaac DuBois. who. being young, doubt- 
less lived with their fatlicr, while Andre LeFevre, having 
no wife, did not need a house. Anthony Crispell, as we 
have stated, never lived at New Paltz, but his daughter, 
who married Elias Ean, located, about 171 2, some four miles 
north of this village, on the homestead where their descendants 
still reside. 

Simon LeFevre died young and his widow married Moses 
Cantain, who occupied the homestead at New Paltz until 
the LeFevre boys were grown, and then removed to Ponck- 
hockie. The last survivor of the jiatentees was Abm. Du- 
Bois. and his grave in the old church-yard in our village 
is the only one of those of pioneers that is marked by a 
stone. It is a large flat stone, picked up in the field, and 
marked "1731, Oct. 7. A. D. Bois, S V R viver of 12 
Patentees." 

Pierre Devo, son of Pierre, the patentee, met a sad and 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 31 

tragic fate ; going alone to search a direct route eastward 
to the Hudson river, he never returned. Long afterward 
the buckle of a truss that he had worn was found at the foot 
■of a tree. He may have died from sudden illness, or from 
the arrow of an Indian. 

Dressmaking in the Old Days 

Among the papers in the Freer collection is one in good 
French, showing that at so early a date as 1699 ^^^ New 
Paltz people were sufficiently advanced in the refinements 
of life to have regularly taught dressmakers. A translation 
is as follows : 

This day, the twenty-seventh of October, 1699, Sara 
Frere, daughter of the late Hugues Frere, an inhabitant of 
the Paltz, has by the advice of Hugues Frere, her brother, 
as her guardian, promised to bind herself to serve in the 
capacity of dress maker's apprentice, during the space of 
three years, to commence the first of December next, to Mr. 
David dc Bonrepos or to Blanche du Bois. his daughter- 
in-law, dress maker, and to obey them in all things that are 
reasonable and proper; and that the said David de Bon- 
repos and Blanche du Bois promise also and bind them- 
selves to feed her, board her. and educate her in the fear 
of the Lord, and to furnish her with whatever shall be 
necessary, having regard to her habits and manner of bring- 
ing up, during the space of three years, and above all, to 
teach her the trade of dress making, and at the end of the 
said three years, to give to her the same number of clothes, 
both dresses and underclothes, as she will bring with her 
on entering the house of the said David de Bonrepos or 
Blanche du Bois, and to teach her to read and write, in so 



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far as it shall be possible for them (to do so) ; in token of 
which they have signed and sealed these presents in the 
presence of witnesses. 

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louys bayvier. 

The First Sales of Land 

One of the first sales of land of which we have any record 
was by Anthony Crispell to Louis Bevier of a lot in New 
Paltz, in 1699. 

Crispell, it must be remembered, never moved to New 
Paltz, but continued to reside in Hurley. The following is 
tlic record in French in the county clerk's office at Kingston : 

Fut present en sa personne Anthoine Crespel Laboureur 
demeurant a Horly Countes de L'lster Cognois et Confesse 
avoir vendue Cedes et Quettes Transportes et par Ces 
presentes vendet de Laisse et Transport a Louis Beviere 
Laborcur (k'lu. an nouveau ])alk' unc certainc tcrre dans un 
Crouspelbose Joignant Le village du dit palle faisant une 
part de douze part suiuant quil a estes partages par Les 
proprietairc (hi dit paHc La ditc part Joignant d'une Le- 
ziere a la Pasture Abraham (hi IJdis et dautre Leziere 
a Louis Beviere dun Ixmt du Costes du mydy sure La 
Wasmater Land Et loutrc bout du Costes du Nort 
Joignant Les heritier de Simon Leffebre. Et moy Le dit 
Crespel promes faire Jouir et garantir at dujours et a per- 
petuites Sans trouble et au])echaneus Le dit Beviers luy et 
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ses hcritier ct La (lite \ cntc faitc moycnnaunt La somme de 
Cens quarante scjuipc de bles que moy Le dit Crespel ay 
Receu Content et tunt iiuitle Le dit Beviers et tous Autres 
en ffoy de quoy. 

Jaye signes fait a ciuinstoune ce dixi ane Jour de Avril 
six Cent nonante neuff. Antoin Crespel. 

Jean Cottin. 

Jaque Du boois. 

Tes nioins. 

The followinjj^ is a translation : 

Personally appeared Anthony Crespel a laborer living at 
Hiirly County of LHster who declares and confesses to have 
sold, ceded, released, conveyed, and by these presents sells, 
releases and conveys to Louis Bevier, laborer living at New 
Palle. a certain i)iece of land in a thicket adjoininj;^ the said 
village of Palle making one of the twelve parts according 
to the partition by the proprietors of said Palle. This said 
part is bounded by the pasture of Abraham DuBois and by 
Louis ]>e\'ier on one side at the south it bounds on the 
Washmaker's land and on the other side at the north on 
the heirs of Simon Leffebre. And L the said Crespel, 
promise to have the said Bevier enjoy and hold thereof 
without trouble and hindrance ; and said sale has been 
made upon payment of the sum of 140 schepels of wheat 
which I the said Crespel have received to my satisfaction 
and absolve thereof the said Bevier and all others. 

In testimony whereof I have signed this. 

Done at Quinstoun this 10 day of April, 1699. 

.Xntoine Crespel. 

Jean Cottin. 

Jaque DuBoois. 
Witnesses. 



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Another sale of land at a still earlier date was from An- 
thony Crispel, the Patentee, to Hugo Freer, son of the 
Patentee, of a pasture at New Paltz. The original deed in 
French is among the papers of the Freer Collection. 

A translation is as follows: 

I, the undersigned. Anthoine Crispel, laborer, dwelling at 
Harley (Hurley), acknowledge that I have sold, conveyed, 
transferred and delivered to Hugue Frere Junior, dwelling 
at the Paltz, a pasture, with all my pretentions thereto, as 
it lies and extends, situated in the tract of the Paltz, adjoin- 
ing the pastures of the late Simon le Febvre, and in con- 
sideration of fifty bushels of wheat * * (Ms. effaced) 
as follows: Twenty-five bushels of wheat and twenty-five 
bushels of flax, at the current price, to be paid in four con- 
secutive years, as follows : twelve and a half bushels each 
year; and I promise to assure and guaranteee the said 
Hugue Frere, Junior, him and his, forever and in perpetuity 
(in his possession). Done at the Paltz, the eleventh of 
September, one thousand six hundred and ninety three, 
anthoine crespel. 

( mark H de Hugue Frere ) 

louys bayver, Jean Cottin, 

witness. witness. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 37 

CHAPTER III 

The French Records of the New Paltz Church 

The French records of the church are in a small book 
containing seventeen pages, about 6x8 inches, which has 
always been in the care of the pastor of the church. The 
paper is of coarse quality and somewhat yellow with age, 
but the writing is perfectly legible. The following trans- 
lation of these records was made by the late Wm. E. Du- 
Bois, of Philadelphia, in 1846: 

January 22, 1683. Mr. Pierre Daillie, minister of the 
Word of God, arrived at Paltz, and preached twice the Sun- 
day following, and proposed to the heads of the families to 
choose by a majority of the votes of the fathers of the fam- 
ilies an Elder and a Deacon, which they did. and chose 
Louis DuBois for Elder and Hugh Frere for Deacon to aid 
the minister in the management of the members of the 
church, meeting at Paltz, who were then confirmed to the 
said charge of Elder and Deacon. The present minute has 
been made to put in order the things which appertain to 
said church. 

October 14, 1683. Baptised two childrc-n of Pierre Doyau 

and [one] named Peter, the other Mary. Abraham 

Rutan, Godfather, and Mary Petilon. Godmother, to the 
first, of the other Abraham DuBois, Godfather, and Mar- 
garet Doioie (Doyau), Godmother. 

October 21. 1683. Baptised a child of Simon LeFevre 
and Elizabeth Doioie. named Isaac. Isaac DuBois God- 
father, and Marie Hasbrouck. Godmother. 



38 IIISTOKV 01- .\ E\y PALTZ 

April 28, 1684. Baptised a child of Isaac DuBois and 
Marie Hasbrouck, named Daniel. Godfather, Louis Du- 
Bois, and Catharine lilancon. Godmother. 

September 23, 1684. Baptised a child of Abraham Ruton 
[Rutemps] and Marie Petilon, named Daniel. Godfather, 
Louys DuBois, Catherine Rlancon [Blanjean], Godmother. 

October 27,, 1684. I'aptised a child of Abram Hasbrouck 
and Marie Doioie, named Joseph. Godfather, Jacob Du- 
Bois, Marie Doioie, Godmother. 

April 4. 1685. Baptised a child of John Hasbrouck and 
Anne Doioie, named Elizabeth. Godfather, Pierre Doioie, 
and Elizabeth Doioie, Godmother. 

April 6, 1685. Baptised a child of Louis Bevier and 
Mary Leblanc, named Louis. Abm. Hasbrouck, Godfather, 
and Mary Doioie, Godmother. 

April 17, 1685. Baptised a child of Abraham DuBois 
and Margaret Doioie. named Abraham. Louis DuBois, 
Godfather, and Catharine Blancon. Godmother. 

October 28, 1685. IJaptised a child of Simon LeFevre 
and Elizabeth Doioie. named John. Pierre Doioie, God- 
father, and Mary Doioie. Godmotlier. 

.Marcli 20. 1(^X54). r.ai)tised a child of Abm. Ruton 
[Rutemps], named Paul. Iluqii l>ere. Godfather, Hagar 
Meckel, Godmother. 

The year one thousand, ifxSO, the ijih of October, was 
baptised a child of Abm. Hasbrouck and Mary Doyo, a son. 
His name is l^olomon. The ( lodfatlier. Louis iSavvier, the 
Godmother, La-Toynelle. 

April 15. 1688. John Hasbrouck and .\nne Doyo have 
baptised a child named Jacob. Godfather, Louis Bayvier, 
Godmother. .Mary Lel)lanc. 

April 19. 1^)88. -Xbram Ruton and ^L'lry Petilon had 



■HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 39 

baptised a child named l)a\id. Godfather, Peter Uoyo 
Godmother. Jane Vilar. 

April 16, 1689. Peter Doyo and Agatha had a daughter 
baptised named Madaline. Godfather^ John Hasbrouck, 
Godmother, .Margaret Doyo. 

April 16, 1689. Lt)uis P.evier and Mary Leblanc had a 
daughter baptised named Esther. Godfather, John Has- 
brouck. Ciodmother, Esther Latoinelle. 

April 16, 1689. Isaac DuBois and Mary Hasbrouck had 
a son baptised named Benjamin. Abram DuBois, God- 
father, and Anne Doyo, Godmother. 

October 13, 1689. Louis Bevier had a son baptised named 
Solomon. Godfather, Isaac DuBois, Godmother, Anne Doyo. 

October 13, 1689. Abraham DuBois and Margaret Doyo 
had a daughter baptised named Rachel. Godfather, Abm. 
Hasbrouck. Godmother, Mary Doyo. 

October 13, 1689. Elizabeth Doyo had a daughter bap- 
tised named Mary. Godfather, Hugh Frere, Godmother, 
Anne Hasbrouck. 

October 16, 1689. Abraham DuBois and Margaret Doyo 
had a daughter baptised named Leah. Godfather, Solo- 
mon DuBois, Godmother, Mary Leblanc. 

May 14. 1690. Isaac DuBois and Mary Hasbrouck. his 
wife had a son baj)tise(l, who was named Philip. John Has- 
brouck, Godfather, and Esther Hasbrouck, Godmother. 

May 14. 1690. Abram Rutemps and Mary Petilon had a 
daughter baptised named Esther. Abm. Hasbrouck, God- 
father, and Esther Hasbrouck. Godmother. 

June 7, 1690. Hugh Frere, son of Hugh Frere, his father. 
and Mary Hayc. his mother, was married by Mr. Daillie 
to Mary Leroy. 

June 9, 1690. The gentlemen of the consistory of Paltz 



40 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

have placed in my hands two sealed bags, saying that in 
one tiierc is a hundred and forty francs in zewannes [wam- 
pum] and in good silver, in the otiicr they say there is four 
hundred francs, zewannes, in good silver. 

Abraham Hasbrouck, Witness. 

mark of (x) Hugh Frere, Elder. 

Louis Bevier. Witness. 

June 28, 1690. Isaac DuBois died at his home in Paltz. 

August 3, 1690. A daughter of Abram Rutemp died, 
aged about 6 months. 

August 9. 1690. Isaac Frere, son of Hugh Frere, died, 
aged about 18 years. 

October 12, 1690. Mr. Dallie baptised a male child of 
Pierre Doyeau. John Cottin, Godfather, Estlier Has- 
broucq. Godmother. His name is Henry. 

October 14. 1691. A])raham Hasbrouck and Mary Do- 
yeau, his wife, had a boy baptised, called Jonas. Abram 
Hasbrouck (son of John 1 Ias])rouck). Godfather, Anne Has- 
brouck. ( jodmother. 

October 17. 1691. Hugh l-'rcrc, Jr., and Mary Leroy, 
his wife, had a l)oy baptised named Hugh. Abram Frere, 
Godfather. Mary l-'rerc. Godmother. 

October 24. 1691. Abram Rutemp and Mary Petilon, his 
wife, had a boy baptised called Peter. Godfather, Peter 
Guimar, Godmother. Esther Hasbrouck. 

.April 18, 1692. Mr. Oallic married Peter Guimar. a 
native of Moir. in ."^aintonge, son of Peter Guimar. and Anne 
Damour (his father and mother), and Esther HasbroucK, 
native of the Palatinate, in Germany, daughter of John 
Hasbrouck and .\nnc Doyeau (her father and mother). 

May 21, 1693. .Xbram DuP.ois and .Mary Dcyo, his wife, 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 41 

"had a daughter baptised named Catharine. Louis DuBois, 
Jr., Godfather, Trinque (Tryntje), wife of Solomon DuBois, 
Godmother. 

May 21, 1693. Hugh Frere and Mary Ann Lcroy, his 
wife, had a son baptised named Isaac. Dennis Reille, God- 
father, and Hagnette, Godmother. 

May 21, 1693. Moses Quantin and EHzabeth Deyo, his 

wife, had a son baptised named . Peter Guimar, 

Godfather, Rachel Hasbrouck^ Godmother. 

April 28, 1694. Abram Frere married to Haignies 
Titesorte. 

May 5, 1694. Anne Doyo died in the Lord, aged 50 years. 

December 8, 1695. The wife of Hugh Frere died in the 
Lord. 

May 31, 1696. Mr. Bonrepos baptised a daughter of 
Hugh Frere and Mary Lcroy (her father and mother), 
having come into the w^orld the 5th of May, 1696. Her 
name is Mary. Abram Hasbrouck, Jr., Godfather, Rachel 
Hasbrouck, Godmother. 

May 31. 1696. Mr. Bonrepos baptised a daughter of 
Abram Frere and Haiquiez Titesorte (her father and 
mother), [she] came into the world the I5tli day of May, 
1696. her name is Nelleties. Louis DuBois, Godfather, and 
Elizabeth Titesort, Godmother. 

May 31, 1696. Mr. Bonrepos baptised a son of Abram 
Hasbrouck and Mary Doyo (his father and mother), his 
name is Benjamin. Abraham Doyo. Godfather, Mary Frere. 
Godmother. 

October 23, 1698. Richard \nitfil and Madclin Chut 
have caused to be baptised a child, his name is (?). Louye 
Bayvier, Godfather, Marian fBayvier?], Godmother. 

October 23. 1698. Abraham Frere [and] Achsah. his 



42 III STORY OF XEIV PALTZ 

wife had a child baptised, his name is Solomon. Moses 
(^uaiitin, liodfather, Rachel Ilasbrouck, Godmother. 

July 2. \i^j<). Jacob Clarwater and Mary, his wife, had a 
child baptised, his name is Abraham. Godfathers, Abrani 
Hasbrouck. Solomon DuBois; Godmother, Mary Doyo. 

July 3. 1699. John Bevier, Abm. Bevier, Isaac Has- 
brouck, Christian Doyo, Jacob Frere, Rachel Hasbrouck^ 
Sarah DuBois were received at the table of the Lord in the 
congregation of the Paltz by Mr. Bonrepos, minister of the 
Word of God. 

October 22, 1699. Louis DuBois [Jr.], was received at 
the table of the Lord in the congregation of Paltz by Mr. 
Bonrepos, minister of the Word of God. 

October 15, 1699. Mr. Bonrepos baptised a daughter of 
Hugh Frere and Mary Anne Leroy, her name is Esther. 
Godfather, John Tebenin, Godmother, Achsah (?) Titesorte. 

May 19. 1700. Richard Viltfil and Madaline Chut, his 
wife, had l^aptised a son, his name is Daniel. Hugh Frere 
is Godfather and Marianne Leroy, Godmother, by Mons. 
Bonrepos, minister of the \\'ord of God. 

Isaac DuBois, son of Louys DuBois and Catharine Blan- 
con [P)lanjean on Kingston record], was married by the 
minister, after three announcements on three Sundays pre- 
vious, to Marie Hasbrouck, daughter to John Hasbrouck 
and Anne Doyoie. 

June k;, 1700. .Andrew Lel-'evre and Samuel P)evier were 
received at the table of the Lord in the congregation of the 
Paltz. by Mr. Bonrepos, minister of the Word of God. 

June 19, 1701. Louis Bevier (Jr/^ married to Rachel 
Hasbnnick. 

Fcbruarv 20, 1702. Christian Doyo and Mary Lcconte 
were married in this town (if Paltz. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 43 

Daniel DuBois has paid 5 francs and 10 too much. 

John LeFevre owes 3 francs. Henry Doyo has paid 22 

francs and 15 too much. Louis DuBois has paid 88 

francs and 5 too much. Hu<^h Frere 3 francs, 5 

too much. Joseph has paid 3 francs, 5 too much. 

Abram Doyo has paid 5 francs, 15 too much. 

Recapitulation by translator of names of French L^amilies, 
or Surnames of the record in their order : 

DuBois, Rutamps (or Ruton), Frere, Daillie (Rev.), Vilt- 
fi]. Chut (?), Bevier, Quantin, Hasbroucq, Clarwater, Doyau, 
Leroy, Bonrepos (Rev.), Meckel, Petilon, LeFevre, Blancon 
(Blanjean), Leblance, Lationelle, Vilar, Guimar, Haye, Cot- 
tin. Reille, Titesorte, Leconte, Tebenin. 

The record extends from 1683 to 1702. There is a single 
entry in Dutch, dated 1718. 

There appears at least eight dififerent handwritings in the 
record. Also the autographs of Abram Hasbrouck and 
Louis Bevier. The latest entry in the handwriting of Louis 
DuBois is dated March, 1686. The last notice of Rev. Mr. 
Daillie is April, 1692. The first of Rev. Mr. Bonrepos, 
May. 1696. 



44 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



CHAPTER IV 

The Blending of French and Dutch at New Paltz 

The question is occasionally raised as to when the first 
marriages took place between the French settlers at New 
Paltz and the Dutch. 

There has been a wide-spread but very erroneous im- 
pression that matrimonial alliances between the Huguenots, 
who came to New Paltz. and the Dutch took place at a very 
early date and even before crossing the Atlantic. 

A careful examination of the records shows that none of 
the Patentees and not many of their children intermarried 
with the Dutch. A considerable proportion of the children 
and grandchildren of the Patentees married people of French 
descent, not residing at New Paltz. Among these appear 
the names, Gumaer, LeConte, Blanshan, Vernooy. Mon- 
tanye, Le Roy, Cantine and Ferree. 

Solomon DuBois, of Poughwoughtononk. son of Louis 
the Patentee, was the first New Paltz man to make the ex- 
periment of selecting a wife outside the Huguenot fold. 
In 1691 Solomon and his wife Tryntje Gerritsen, whose 
name bespeaks her Dutch origin, had a son, Isaac, presented 
for baptism. 

The first young man of Dutch origin to marrv a New 
Paltz woman and locate within the bounds of the Patent 
was Jacob Clearwater, whose residence was at Bontccoe. 
In 1699- he and his wife. Mary Dcyo. had a son. Abraham. 
presented for baptism. I'ut Jacob Clearwater did not leave 
descendants permanently residing at New Paltz. 



HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 45 

There were a few and only a few other marriages between 
the Dutch and those of the children of the Patentees who 
located at New Paltz, as follows: Abraham Deyo married 
Elsie Clearwater in 1702; Roelif Eltinge married Sarah 
DuBois in 1703; Jacob Freer married Altje Van Weyen in 
1705; Joseph Hasbrouck married Ellsje Schoonmaker in 
1706; Hendricus Deyo married Margaret Van Bummell in 
1715; Solomon Hasbrouck married Sarah Van Wagenen 
in 1721. Other children of the Patentees^ who settled out- 
side of New Paltz, intermarried with the Dutch to a greater 
extent. 

In the third generation there were quite a number of in- 
termarriages with the Dutch, in certain families, but fewer, 
we think, than are generally supposed. In the LeFevre 
family, out of twenty-one grandchildren of Simon LeFevre, 
the Patentee, who grew to maturity and married, not one 
selected a partner of the Holland race. One married Col. 
Johannes Hardenbergh, Jr., who was of German origin, and 
one married Jacob Hoflfman, who was of Swedish ancestry- 
All the rest united with people bearing French names. 

Elias Ean, whose nationality is not known, was the first 
man, not the son of a Patentee, to settle at New Paltz and 
remain there permanently. He married Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Anthony Crispell. the Patentee, and located al)()ut 
four miles north of the village on a farm, that has come down 
in the family until the present day. Elias Fan's name ap- 
pears on the tax list of 1712, and when the first stone church 
was erected in 1718. just forty years after the settlement, 
Elias Un (in Dutch Ean) was the only person, beside the 
Patentees and their children, who assisted in the work. 

The first man who was certainly of Dutch origin to locate 
here permanently was Roeliff Eltinge, who married Sarah, 



46 III STORY OF Mill' PALTZ 

daughter of Abraham DuBois the Patentee in 1703. It was 
not, however, until about a score of years later that he 
moved from Kingston, where he held the office of justice 
of the peace, and located at New Paltz. His family was 
the first that was certainly of Dutch origin to take root at 
New Paltz and flourish here. 

The Low family, which was of Dutch descent, had a num- 
ber of representatives at New Paltz for a long period, both 
before and after the Revolutionary war. but finally all died 
out or moved away. 

Next to the Eltings, the Van Wagenens were the most 
prominent among the Dutch to settle and remain perma- 
nently at New Paltz. P>ul the \"an Wagenens did not come 
until a much later date than the Eltings, the name of Petrus 
Van W'agencn, the progenitor of the family at New Paltz, 
not appearing on the church book here until 1766. 

Although the French and Dutch at New Paltz no doubt 
harmonized, yet the line of demarcation is plainly seen in 
the strife between the Cuetus and Conferentia parties, which 
for a time split the Dutch church in America into two 
hostile factions. The Conferentie party, which claimed that 
each dominie must be ordained by the homo churcli in Hol- 
land, seceded from the New Paltz church and in 1766 erected 
a church building near Mr. W. H. D. Blake's present resi- 
dence, about two miles from our village. This church was 
called by the old people "the owl church," probably because 
the woods near by was a favorite haunt for owls. In the 
list of persons who built the Conferentie church appear the 
names of four Eltings, three Lows, Petrus Van Wagenen 
and Abraham Ean. The names of a small portion of the 
DuBois family, but no other names of French origin, appear 
in the list of those who built tin- Conferentie church. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 47 

Wlicn the second stone church was built in our village 
in 1772, the Dutch element, which had seceded and built 
the Conferentie church, rendered no aid. About ten years 
afterwards peace came, and in 1783 the Conferentie church 
organization was, as stated in the church book, "in the fear 
of God, in love and mutual friendship imited with the old 
congregation of the New Paltz." 

Thenceforward there was peace and harmony in the 
church, and the New Paltz people who bore names of Hol- 
land origin have been certainly quite as faithful in support 
of the church as those bearing Huguenot names. 

In the blending of races, which took place at New Paltz 
as well as elsewhere in New York, there were other ele- 
ments beside the French and the Dutch. The Brodheads 
were English ; the Auchmoodys, Scotch ; the Hardenberghs, 
German ; the Ronks and Terpenings from Flanders ; the 
Bruyns, Norwegian. The ancestors of the Wurts and 
Goetcheous families were Swiss. By the mixture of these 
various nationalities the people of New Paltz had become a 
composite race at the beginning of the last century. 

In this mixture of races there was little infusion of Eng- 
lish blood imtil the Quaker settlement at Butterville, about 
1810. The New Englanders swarmed into what is now 
Orange county, a portion coming by way of Long Island ; 
but on the lower W'allkill tlicy found the ground occupied 
and did not enter. 

The Dutch language was not abandoned at New Paltz 
because of an influx of English-speaking people. Neither, 
may we say, had the French tongue been previously aban- 
doned because the Dutch element had come into the town 
in large numbers. No doubt the influence of church and 
school and of surrounding communities brought about a 



48 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

chancre in the language. The father of the writer has told 
him that he did not learn to speak English till he went to 
school. This was not an exceptional case. No doubt there 
were many in this community who knew no tongue but the 
Dutch until they went to that famous Irish schoolmaster, 
Gilbert Cuthbert Rice, who from about 1815 to about 1825 
taught the young ideas how to shoot in different communi- 
ties in the vicinity of New Paltz. Quite probably the grand- 
parents of some of the children who thus learned to talk 
English had themselves known no tongue but the French 
until they went to school, and there from a Dutch-speaking 
schoolmaster and Dutch-speaking children learned to use 
that language. 

A story that has come down to us from the old people re- 
lates that when the three brothers, sons of Isaac LeFevre, 
were living in the three stone houses on the banks of the 
Wallkill at Bontecoe, a child sent from one of the houses 
to another to borrow some article asked for it in Dutch and 
was indignantly told to go back home and learn to ask for 
it in French. This was about 1760, and the story shows 
that even where the children were of pure French blood, as 
was the case at that time with the Bontecoe LeFevres, they 
had somehow learned to speak in Dutch, but received a 
stern rebuke for using that tongue. 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 49 



CHAPTER V 

Collections of Old Papers 

From time to time, since the matter of the local history 
of New Paltz has attracted attention, various collections of 
old papers and documents have been brought to light. 
Valuable collections of ancient documents are owned in the 
families of the late ^Messrs. Edmund Eltinge and Samuel 
B. Stilwell. 

The largest and most valuable assortment of old papers 
was that in the possession of Mrs. Theodore Deyo. This 
contained not only papers relating to the Deyo family, but 
many others. It is stated that when the British burned 
Kingston, in the time of the Revolution, is was supposed 
that they would march up the Wallkill and burn New Paltz, 
likewise. It must be remembered that in colonial days the 
practice of having valuable papers recorded in the county 
clerk's office was not as general as it now is. In order to 
have their papers in a safe place, the New Paltz people 
brought them to the residence of Captain Abram Deyo, 
whose house is now owned and occupied by his great-great- 
grandson, Abm. Deyo Brodhead. Here they were placed in 
a large chest and buried in the cellar. After the fright was 
over, and the British had returned to New York, some of 
the papers were not reclaimed by their owners. The chest 
containing the papers was taken from the residence of Capt. 
Abm. Deyo to that of his brother. Pliilip Deyo, on the Paltz 
Plains, and remained there during his life time and that of 
his son, Andries. and also while Theodore Deyo, who was 

4 



50 ' HISTORY or Mill' i'ALTZ 

the son of Andrjes, kept the okl liomestead. W'licn he 
moved it was taken to the new residence of the family, 
where it remained. 

One of tlie most valuable collections of ancient documents 
is that which has come down in the family of Isaac DuBois, 
the Patentee. Among the papers are the following: 

A quit claim from Mary, wndow of Isaac DuBois, the 
Patentee, to her son, Daniel, for her interest in the real 
estate of her husband. This is dated 1718. 

A release from Andre, Isaac and Jean, sons of Simon 
LeFevre the Patentee, to their sister Mary, wife of Daniel 
DuBois, for their share in certain lots of land lyint,^ in and 
near the village. This is dated 1713. 

A will in l-'rench of Daniel DuBois, dated 1729. The 
handwriting is plain, and each letter distinct from beginning 
to end of the document. The first page is nearly taken up 
with a complete and extended declaration of faith in the 
Christian religion, which is in striking contrast with the 
plain businesslike form of the wills of the present day. 

A paper which is in Dutch is dated 1741 and contains the 
signatures of Daniel DuBois, Isaac LeFevre. Simon Le- 
Fevre and Matthew LeFevre. 

Another valuable paper is dated 1742 and is a bond given 
by Jean LeFevre to Garret Kateltas, when the former pur- 
chased of the latter the land in Kettleborough on which 
Jean's sons, Abraham and Andries, settled. 

A large collection of ancient documents has come down 
in the Freer family, many of them dating back to the time 
of Hugo Freer, senior, son of Hugo the Patentee. 

Some of the most ancient of these papers have been 
framed in glass and placed in the Memorial House : others 
have been placed in a small trunk, in which a portion of 



HISTORV OF XEiy PALTZ 51 

them had been previously kept. This little trunk is about 
six inches long and four inches wide. It bears the initials 
H. V. and has a blacksmith-made handle. There are among 
these ancient papers about thirty in the French language 
and a few in Dutch and English. A considerable portion 
are fully 200 years old. They include letters, wills, receipts, 
deeds and warrants. 

One of the most valuable papers is a copy of a deed of 
gift in 1689 from the New Paltz people to their schoolmaster, 
Jean Cottin. of a house and lot. Among the other papers in 
the little trunk are the following: 

A deed from Jean Cottin to Hugo Freer of a house and 
lot in this village. pro1)al)ly the property above mentioned, 
dated 1701. 

Three receipts in the handwriting and containing the sig- 
nature of Louis Dul'ois the Patentee, each dated in 1695, 
the year before his death. 

Two receipts in the handwriting and containing the sig- 
nature of Abraham DuBois the Patentee. 

Two receipts in the handwriting and containing the sig- 
nature of Moses Cantain. the ancestor of the Cantine family. 

A paper containing the signature of Peter du booys, who 
was a nephew of Louis DuBois the Patentee, and ancestor 
of the Dutchess county DuBoises. 

A warrant, in English, in the handwriting and with the 
signature of Roelif Eltinge. ancestor of the New Paltz El- 
tings, who was at the time of writing. 1710, still residing in 
Kingston and was already a justice of the peace. 

.\ paper in the handwriting and containing the signature 
Df Solomon DuBois. son of Louis the Patentee. 

The will of Hugo Freer the Patentee. 

The will, in Dutch, of his son. Hugo, senior. 



52 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

A deed dated 1693 from Anthony Crispell the Patentee 
to Hugo Freer for a lot of land in this village, probably the 
first sale of real estate at New Paltz, the pay to be made 
partly in wheat and partly in flax seed. 

Papers with the signatures of Rev, Pierre Daillie and 
Rev. David Bonrepos, the two French pastors at New Paltz. 

Letters of friendship .and business addressed to Hugo 
Freer from New York and Quebec. 

Bills from merchants in New York, showing the high 
prices for goods in ordinary use and the very low price paid 
for country produce in those old days. 

An order for grain to be delivered at the mill of Johannes 
DuBois at Greenkill, in the present town of Rosendale, 
dated in 1701, and showing that there was a mill there at 
that early date. 

Deeds to Hugo Freer, senior, son of Hugo the Patentee, 
from his two sisters, who married and located at Schenec- 
tady, and from his brother Jean, who located at Kingston, 
for their share of their father's estate. 

A deed, in English, from Abraham Freer to his brother, 
Hugo, senior, for his two sittings in the first stone church. 

Papers with the signatures of Louis Bevier the Patentee 
and Abraham Hasbrouck the Patentee. 

A tax list of 1712, showing that at that time the Patentees 
and their children constituted almost the entire taxpaying 
population of the precinct. Four of the Patentees were 
still alive. 

The oldest paper is dated 1677 — the year of the Patent. 
It does not seem to be a paper of much importance. 

Many of these documents are specially useful in deter- 
mining the original orthography of the names of the early 
settlers at New Paltz. This can not be determined from 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 53 

the church records, because the minister performing the 
ceremony evidently recorded each name as he thought it 
ought to be spelled, without asking the parent of the child 
baptised how he was accustomed to spell it. 

Among the more modern papers in this collection are a 
mass of documents, including a will of Jonas Freer, a letter 
from Aaron Burr, a letter from Col. Abraham Hasbrouck, 
of Kingston, and other papers of interest to members of the 
Freer family. 

Most of the papers have not been fully translated, but 
have been examined to a sufficient extent to give a clear 
idea of their contents. 

The Patentees' Trunk 

For about 100 years, commencing with 1728, the adminis- 
tration of affairs, in this town, regarding land titles, etc., was 
in the hands of a board of twelve men, elected annually, who 
represented the original twelve patentees. The trunk, con- 
taining records that remain, was for a great number of years 
at the Huguenot Bank, in this village. About 1850, at a pub- 
lic meeting, a committee was appointed to examine the old 
trunk and report what documents it contained. Some of the 
papers are in French and others in Dutch, but the majority are 
in English. These papers have since been placed in the safe 
in the town clerk's office. The most important papers in the 
Patentees' trunk were as follows : 

1st. A copy of the purchase of the patent, signed by the 
Indians on their part, and by Louis DuBois and the other 
patentees. 

2d. The confirmation of the title to the patentees by Ed- 



54 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

mond Andross, Colonial Governor of New York, given Sep- 
tember 29, 1677. 

3d. A document dated February 13, 1682, with reference 
to negotiation concerning the purchase of land to the south- 
ward as far as the "New Indian Fort." This was situated at 
Shawangunk. 

4th. An agreement entered into April 21, 1728, by which 
the institution of the "Twelve Men" was established to fix 
the title to lands, previously divided, and to distribute the re- 
mainder by lot. 

5th. Two contracts, one dated 1744 and the other 1774, en- 
tered into by the owners of the patent, binding themselves to 
pay all assessments by the "Twelve Men" for legal expenses 
in defending the claims of title of any of the owners. 

6th. An Act of the Legislature confirming unto the owners, 
the partitions of land made by the "Twelve Men." This is 
dated in 1785 and is signed by Gen. George Clinton as 
Governor. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 55 



CHAPTER VI 

The Spelling of Various Family Names 

The question is sometimes asked as to what is the original 
orthography of various family names of people in New 
Paltz and elsewhere in Ulster county. The question can 
not be answered from the church records, but in some cases 
can be decided from the original signatures of the Patentees. 
The earliest records in the Dutch church at Kingston and 
the Huguenot church at New Paltz show different ways 
of spelling the same name. 

Turning to the translation of the French records of the 
New Paltz church in the very first entry, October 14, 1683, 
we find the baptism of two children of Pierre "Doyau." 
Their godmother was their father's sister, Margaret "Doi- 
oie," wife of Abraham DuBois. Their baptism was not per- 
formed by a back woodsman, who did not know how to spell, 
but by Rev. Pierre Daillie. a learned man, who before he 
left France was a professor in the university of Saumur. 
Yet here in the same entry he spells the name of the brother 
Doyau and of the sister Doioie. In 1686, three years after 
this first record, we find the name of Anna, another sister 
of the same family and wife of John Hasbrouck, spelled 
Doyo. Here are three different methods of spelling the 
family name now written almost uniformly Deyo. 

If there had been any established form of spelling the 
name the ministers would undoubtedly have spelled it 
that way. 

in the treat \ with the Indians, made in K')/". Pierre, the 



S6 JIJSTORy Of XEir PALTZ 

Patentee, wrote the name Doyo, his father, Christian, did 
not write his name, but makes his mark and the name is 
written deYoo. 

Another yet more striking instance of different ways of 
spelling the same family name is that of the two Hasbrouck 
brothers. In the treaty made with the Indians for the pur- 
chase of the patent, Abraham Hasbrouck writes his name 
Hasbrocq, and his brother, Jean, writes the name Brocq, 
without the prefix Has. In the same paper we find that 
the name of the leader of the band of Huguenots is spelled 
Lowies DuBooys, and that of his son, Abraham, is spelled 
in the same way ; the name of the LeFevre brothers is 
spelled Lefebre, and Freer is spelled as at the present day. 
In the agreement amon'g the owners of the patent in 1728 
we find the three sons of Simon LeFevre, the Patentee, each 
spelling the name LeFevre ; two of the Hasbroucks wrote 
the name Hasbrocq, while another had the present spelling; 
the DuBoises and Beviers spelled the name as at present; 
Freer is written Freer, while the three signatures of Deyos 
are all spelled differently — one writing Doio, another Doiau 
and another Doyo. 

Rev. Randall R. Hoes in the preface to the translation of 
the records of the Dutch church at Kingston speaks thus 
of the orthography of the various family names : 

"The orthography of the proper nanus in these Registers 
is quite in keeping with a practice of the early times in 
which they were written. — It never seems to have occurred 
to these university-bred Dutch Domines of the Kingston 
church U) inquire how various persons presenting them- 
selves for marriage, or their children for baptism, spelled 
their own names, but these names having l)een pronounced 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 57 

in their hcarint;-, they recorded them phonetically, according 
to the prompting of their ears, or arbitrarily, according to 
the dictates of their fancy. This practice, however, in- 
volved no unusual inconsistency, for the orthography of 
the Dutch language, even in Holland, as respects both 
common and proper names, was not wholly settled until 
late in the eighteenth century. Some of our most familiar 
family names of to-day are recorded on these pages in half a 
dozen or more different ways, and in many instances varia- 
tions in spelling occur even in the same baptismal or marriage 
entry. It is therefore impossible in any case whatever to state, 
at least by the aid of these Registers, the exact original or- 
thography, even if any existed, of particular family names 
among our Dutch settlers. — This remark applies, moreover, 
to all of the early civil and ecclesiastical records of the Dutch, 
whether in this country or in Holland, and to a large extent 
also to those written in English, as it was not before the com- 
mencement of the present century that any marked degree of 
uniformity was observed in the orthography of a very large 
number of proper names. 

"The variations in spelling in the Kingston Church Registers 
are even more involved and confusing than usual, owing to 
the fact that Domines INIancius, Meyer, and Doll, and also 
Domine Cock, of East Camp, an advisory friend of the King- 
ston church, who during the "Coetus" and "Conferentie" diffi- 
culties, repeatedly officiated there at baptismal and marriage 
ceremonies, were not Dutchmen, 1)Ut Germans, and naturally 
displayed German tendencies in their orthography." 



S8 n/STOKY OF A/i/C PALTZ 



CHAPTER VII 

Moving Out and Moving In 

Isaac LeFevre, son of Simon Lel'cvro. the Patentee. Hen- 
(Irick Deyo. son of Pierre, the I^atentee. ami jacol) Freer, son 
of lIu.s;o Freer, the Patentee, located about 1720 in what is still 
known as Bontecoe. about four miles north of this village, the 
last named nearly on the north bounds of the patent, and their 
descendants have continued to the present day to occupy, in 
great part, the land settled on at this time by their ancestors. 
The name Bontecoe was, perhaps, bestowed in remembrance 
of the Dutch vessel Bontecoe, called in contemporaneous Eng- 
lish history "Spotted Cow," which made several voyages from 
Holland to America, bringing over a number of Huguenot 
emigrants, though we have no certain information as yet that 
any of the people who located at Xew Paltz crossed the ocean 
on the Bontecoe. 

There is equally good reason for sui)posing that the proper 
orthography is Bon-ter-cou, meaning "neck of good land" arid 
applied to the fertile necks of land on the banks of the Wallkill. 

About the year 1720, Roelif Eltinge, son of Jan Eltinge, a 
native of Drenthe. in Holland, came from Kingston to Xew 
Paltz. He married the daughter of Abm. DuBois. the patentee, 
and from that day to this the Eltinges have been men of influ- 
ence and greatly respected in Xew Paltz. 

Although the Paltz patent included about 36,000 acres of 
land, yet the sons and grandsons of the original settlers were, 
from time to time, obtaining fresh grants of land to the south 
of the original graiU, while others emigrated to Duchess, 



HISTORY OI' Xmy PALTZ 59 

Orange and Greene counties, likewise to other parts of the 
State, and to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Wherever they 
settled the Huguenot stock usually took root. 

F.ut the emigration was only the swarming out. The old 
colony of New Paltz contiiuicd to thrive, although its growth 
was slow. 

In 1720 the church of logs in which they had worshiped God 
gave way to a stone structure. 

Previous to this time, and after the departure of Rev. Pierre 
Daille for Boston, Rev. David Bonrepos preached at New Paltz, 
not as a stated pastor but as a supply. 

The Dutch Language Superseding the French 

During this time the French language was giving way and 
the Dutch taking its place. It is as difficult to determine how 
long the French language was used at New Paltz as it is to 
say how long the Holland tongue was spoken. \'ery old people 
still talk in Dutch occasionally. When the writer was a child 
it was the custom for the old people to talk in Dutch when they 
did not want the children to understand what they were say- 
ing. Father informed us that he never learned to speak Eng- 
lish until he went to school. The first and second generations 
of the New Paltz people probably talked French altogether. 

The French language was evidently never much used in im- 
portant legal documents at New Paltz, though it was doubtless 
the common speech of the people for at least half a century 
after the first settlement. The country being under English 
rule, and Kingston being a Dutch settlement, it was natural 
that official documents in the state or county archives, although 
relating to a French-speaking comnuinity, should be written in 
the English or Dutch tongue. In receipts and papers of that 



6o HISTORY or XEIV PALTZ 

nature g^ivcn by one person to another in the Httle community 
the French language was used and many of these papers are 
still in existence. In the old graveyard the oldest tombstor.es 
have English inscriptions. On the church book the first entry 
in Dutch was in 171 8. One of the few papers in French that 
have been preserved in the "Patentees' trunk" is a little slip, 
dated 1729, commencing thus: "Daniel Hasbronck a {<aise a 
jacobus brnn pour Ic vilage un demy pistole," etc. In family 
collections many papers in French have come to light. 

Perhaps the most noteworthy papers in the French language 
in the Patentees' trunk are the two wills of Jean Tebenin, 
one of the two French schoolmasters of the little settlement. 
One of these wills is dated February 20, 17 19. and the other 
November 14. 1730. The testator, who had no wife or chil- 
dren, left his property to the church, and mentions particularly 
his French Bible, which, if the French language should be 
superseded by the Dutch, must be sold and the proceeds given 
to the poor in the church. 

TiiRRiTORV Formerly Part of This Town, But Not Within 
THE Paltz Patent 

It must be noted that the to^vn of New Paltz, at its 
greatest extent and before it had been dismembered, in- 
cluded much territory not within the original bounds of 
the Patent, which extended only about a mile south of this 
village. This additional territory, included in the town, 
comprised a number of smaller patents, which had become, 
either by purchase or by grant from the colonial governors, 
the property of descendants of the Paltz patentees. 

In 1685, only eight years after the Huguenots settled at 
New Paltz, a tract of 5,000 acres, at Guildford, was granted 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 6i 

to James Graham and John Dclavall. On this tract lived 
a number of years afterwards, Ellsje, the widow of Joseph, 
son of Abraham Hasbrouck, one of the Paltz patentees. 
She outlived her husband about forty-one years, raised a 
large family and here some of her descendants still till the 
ancestral acres. The original grant is in possession of 
Joseph Hasbrouck, Jr. 

The next grant, in point of time, was doubtless that from 
Gov. Dongan, to the original Louis DuBois, lying prin- 
cipally on the west side of the Wallkill and extending from 
the Paltz patent to the Guilford patent. Louis, in his will, 
makes mention of the fact that this tract had been granted to 
him by patent dated June, 1688. 

Edmund Eltinge had in his possession a release, dated in 
1729, from the then proprietors of the Paltz patent, for 
the sum of six pence, to Solomon and Louis, Jr., of any 
claim they might possibly have against this tract, granted 
their father. On this tract, on the west side of the Wallkill, 
Solomon and Louis, Jr., had located, the former taking the 
northern part of the tract and Louis the southern part. 

The next grant of land, in point of time, was probably 
that to Captain John Evans by Governor Fletcher, in 1694, 
which comprised an immense territory extending from New 
Paltz patent southward into Orange county. This grant 
was annulled by the Legislature five years afterwards, and 
we find reference to this fact in one or two subsequent 
grants. 

The next grant, adjoining the Paltz patent on the south, 
was of 1.200 acres, June 30, 171 5. to Hugo Frere, Sen., the 
son of Hugo the Paltz patentee, and to his sons, Hugo, Jr., 
Thomas and Isaac. On this tract his descendants arc still 
cultivating the soil granted to their ancestors in 17 15. 



62 HISTORY or X liW PALTZ 

In ijJi. January 21. was g^ranlctl tlie Garland patent of 
2,000 acres, taking in the Kcttleborough and Ireland Corner 
neighborhoods. < )n this tract Ciarret Ketaltas was a free- 
holder, in 1728. and on this tract Andries and Abram Le- 
I'^evre and Oaniel Deyo resided alxrnt thirty years later 
and here a number of their descendants still live. 

In 1748 there was granted to Xoah Eltinge and Nathaniel 
LeFevre 3.000 acres, lying on the Paltz Plains and extend- 
ing eastward and also including some land on the west side 
of the Wallkill. On a portitin of this grant some of their 
descendants are still living. 

Lastly, in point of time, was the grant, in 1753. in the 
name of George II. King of England, to Abraham Has- 
brouck, of Kingston. Louis Bevier. of Marbletown. and 
Jacob Hasbrouck. Jr.. of Xcw Paltz. of several parcels of 
land, petitioned for. which, as stated in the grant, did not 
exceed 2,000 acres, and was part of the tract formerly 
granted to Cai)t. John Evans and afterwards vacated and 
lay on both sides of the Paltz River, some ]iarts lying to 
the southward of the Paltz patent and some parcels south- 
ward of the grant to Noach Eltinge and Nathaniel LeFevre. 
The parchment, containing this patent and the great seal 
of the colony, attached, was in possession of Mr. Samuel B. 
Stilwell, who resided on ])art of the tract and was a de- 
scendant of the Abm. Hasbrouck, of Kingston, to whom 
one-third i^f this patent was granted. 

The First Public Highway 

The first highway, ])robably, in this town, was laid in 1738, 
when a highway was laid out, as stated in the record, for the 



HISTORY OP Mill' I'ALTZ 63 

purpose of enabling the people to get to church at Xew Paltz 
and Kingston. The route stretched from one to another of 
the old stone houses along the Wallkill, north from our village 
to the northern bounds of the patent, crossing the Wallkill by 
a scow, just this side of the liontecoe school-house. The marks 
are yet to be seen where this old road had been worked down 
below the level of the surrounding soil. About forty years 
later this road was abandoned and a new one was constructed 
about one-eighth of a mile farther east, above the reach of 
high water. As a consequence of this removal of the high- 
way, nearl\- all tlie old settlers had to construct lanes from 
their houses. About a mile north of the village the new high- 
way drew so near to the old that an angle was made, and the 
old highway was used for the rest of the route to the village. 

Disputes in Rkgard to tiik Boundaries of the Patent 

The first grant, from Governor Andross. did not define the 
boundaries of the patent very clearly. In 1722 an attempt 
was made to fix exactly the corner of the patent at Paltz Point 
(or as it is now called jMohonk ) as is shown by the following 
document : 

"These are to certify that the inhabitants of the town of New 
Paltz. being desirous that the first station of their patent, named 
Maggonck. might be kept in remembrance, did desire us, Joseph 
Horsbrook. John Hardenburgh. Roeleft Eltinge. Esq., Justices 
of the county of I'lster. to accompany them and there bring 
Ancrop. the Indian, then brought us to the High Mountain 
which is named Maggrnai)ogh at or near the foot of .which 
hill is a small run of water and a swamp which he called Mag- 
gonck and the said Indian. Ancrop affirms it to be the right 



64 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

Indian names of the said places as witness our hands this 
nineteenth day of December, 1722. 

"JOSEPH HASBROUCK, 
"HARDENBERGH, 
"ROELOFF ELTINGE. 

"Ulster County, ) 

' ss ■ — 
"April i6th, 1723. \ 

"Recorded for said county, Records in lib. CC. fol. 205. 

"J. GIL. LIVINGSTON, 

"Clerk." 

In regard to the boundary line between the Paltz patent and 
the patent of Louis Dubois, on the south, there was also 
trouble, and in 1729 the line was surveyed by Caldwallad.r 
Colden, Jr. A letter from Josiah DuBois written in 1850 says 
in regard to a certain stone on the west bank of the Wallkill : 

"I have a deposition on parchment of Abm. DuBois, the 
patentee, who makes oath that he saw an Indian named Bon- 
tecoe stand, at the place where this stone is with one foot on 
one side of the brook and the other on the other, and heard 
him say the lands on his right belong to the DuBoises and those 
on his left to the Frenchmen." The boundary line between 
New Paltz and Marbletown, and also between New Paltz and 
the Hardenbergh patent on the north were also matters of dis- 
pute. It was claimed that the Hardenbergh patent included 
Dashvillc Falls, and it was alleged on the part of the New Pakz 
people that the surveyor had been bribed by the present of a 
cow to run the line so as to deprive New Paltz of the valuable 
water privilege. The bounds of the patent as finally deter- 
mined, left the Falls in the Hardenbergh jiatent. 

The boundary line between New Paltz and Marbletown was 



HISTORY OF ^\'EIV PALTZ 65 

not settled until after the revolutionary war. The top of the 
mountain was the line, but it was impossible to determine ex- 
actly where the top of the mountain was. We have in our 
possession an ancient document containing the proceedings of 
a meeting at which Dr. George Wurts, the first Wurts in this 
])lace, was Chairman, and Isaac LeFever, clerk, at which the 
representatives of the different Paltz families bound them- 
selves to stand together in contesting the claims of Marble- 
town. In the suit which followed the Paltz people employed 
Aaron liurr as their attornev and won the case. 



66 HISTOKV OF XEIV PALTZ 



CHAPTER VIII 

A Pure Democracy 

The government of Xew Paltz in the earliest period was 
evidently a pure Democracy, the heads of families gathering 
in a body to frame regulations for the general welfare. This 
fact is plainly set forth in the following: 

Xew Paltz Orders 
recorded 

We inhabitants of ye Niew Pals in generall are mett together 
ye 23th day of Feb. 171 1- 12 to conclued concerning all our 
fences of the Land as also of the pastures, to the plurality of 
Votes according to the order of the Warrant to the Constable 
directed ; 

First of all we shall begin to ye kill or kreek next of Solomon 
Dubois to ye Aest of sd Solomon and then the fence shall run 
to ye Iwunds of Abraham Dubois, from thence along a run of 
waiter and then to the pasture of Louis Bevier. and the sd fence 
is to be made of three Rails ami of three and fifty inches high, 
and then ye sd Louis Bevier is obliged to make and repare a 
good and sufficient fence a Long his pasture to ye East until 
he Comes to .Xbraham Dubois, and then Jacob Hasbroucq shall 
make or have a good Sufficient fence of the same high as here 
above menti«Micd until he comes to the pasture of Daniel Dubois 
neer of the tourelle or neest and then the gate Shall be Set 
according as it is onlered <^r concluded, then the X. Pals town 
Shall together make the fence from Jacob Hasbroucq. to the 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 67 

sd. gate and so we shall begin the vasmakerslant fences to tne 
kill or kreek at the Landing place, to the erf of John Has- 
broucq and every one of us must make his part or share at .ax 
Raeles as now is and them that have theirs erf opposite the P. 
Vasmakersland they shall make and maintaine a good and suf- 
ficient fence to the house of Hugue Frere, as also at both sides 
of the street and between the Erfs a good and close fence to 
be made, it is also said that ye fences of the Creupelbos shall 
begin to the house of Hugue frere and so a Long the above sd 
Creupelbos so fare as hath been measured, and them that have 
a part or lots in sd Creupelbos they shall make and hold a 
good and sufficient six Railes fence of fifty three inches high 
there he now is at present. And to the end of sd fence shall 
begin the bosh fence of three Railes of the same high as here 
above mentioned and so along to the kill or kreek neer of 
Abraham Frere so as it is now deeld and devided Now to the 
other sides of the kill or kreek to the West we shall begin to 
the long macos or long bondecoe and shall be made and kept 
as now is at present and of the same high to the time that wee 
think fit to join him together. 

As also the fences of ye petit macos or litle bondecoe shall 
be made and kept as now is at present and of the same high 
as above sd. for ye time of two year and then shall be sett a 
long de mountaing in ye best convenient place that we think 
sutable, and then will be joined to the high bridge fences & 
from sd bridge to the kill or kreke near Solomon Dubois to 
the West ; Every one shall make and kepe his fences good and 
sufficient at three Reals and of ye same high as aforesd. 

More concerning the old pastures every one is oblidged and 
bound to doe as his Nebourgh that is to say the just half of ye 
fences of five Raels or other wise & that good and sufficient. 

And as for ve kcttcl doing Damage and so taken thev shall 



68 HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

be i)ut in pound hy him that shall there unto be chosen or im- 
poured by the inhabitants of sd place. 

And each and even- horse or Cow beast so taken in damage 
shall pay a piece nine pence for a fine, the one half for him there- 
unto chosen, and the other half for the toune. And as for the 
hogs they shall have no Liberties for to Runne free ; but as 
for the Sheeps they may runne free until that time that they 
goe in Dammage in ye Corne or in the pastures, provided ye 
fences be good and sufficient as for the first time Warning 
shall be given Charitably to ye owner to kepe them out Dam- 
mage, but if they are once more taken in Dammage they shall 
pay for a fine 3 pences a peace. And as for the horses which 
Rune upon the Land in the fale they shall be taken away the 
30th of September otherwise they shall pay the fine here- 
above sd. Concerning all the fences here before mentioned, 
Each and Every one is oblidged and bound to make and kepe 
his owne fence at the time Limitted or ordered by him there- 
unto chosen to take notice of sd. fences, but in case any one 
neglict or will not doe or make his fence he shall pay for a 
fyne six shellings, and the Viewers of fences shall make or 
have made the sd fence or fences at his owne charge as ye 
Law Dirrect in such case. 

Here is farther Concluded for them that leaves any gates 
open, it be with a malicious intend, or neglict they shall pay 
for a fine three shellings. — And the money so Received of the 
finnes shall be imployd to pay the cost and charges of the 
touwne, and such person or persons thereunto chosen to Re- 
ceive the sd fines shall be accoumptable or give an accounts 
yearly to ye touwne. 

Recorded p. 

W. Nottingham Clerk. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 69 

Land Worked in Common 

There is good evidence that in the early settlement the land 
was worked in common. In the bends of the Wallkill four 
spots of fertile land were known as Grote Bontecoe, Kline 
Bontecoe, Bontecoe in Haning and IJontecoe. Grote Bonte- 
coe was certainly worked by the settlers in common, and there 
is good reason to believe that other lands were also so worked. 

The Government of the Dusine 

In 1728 there were twenty-four proprietors at New Paltz, 
and at that time was instituted the government of the Twelve 
Men or Dusine. They were chosen annually, and had power 
to act and set in good order and unity all common aflFairs. 
These twelve men exercised the power of dividing lands by 
lot, in the Paltz patent, and giving title by parole, without deed. 

They made rules in regard to fence building, and imposed 
fines for violation of these rules, in fact they exercised, to some 
extent, judicial as well as legislative powers, until in 1785, 
when the town was incorporated in tiie State government, and 
by special Act of the Legislature the grants and partitions of 
the Dusine were confirmed. It does not appear that any appeal 
was ever taken to the Colonial Government from the acts of 
the Dusine. There were divisions of land into lots among the 
projirietors at two different times, the land being set off in 
regular tiers, numbering from one to twelve. 

There were, besides the Dusine, regularly chosen town 
officers whose duties were distinct from those of the twelve 
men. The latter were chosen annually at town meeting and 



yo HISTORY Of A' L/C PALTZ 

were descendants cither in the male or female line from the 
patentee whom they represented. 

The Dusine were elected by inz'a race vote annually just be- 
fore the poll opened. In the latter j)eriod of their existence 
about the only power exercised was to settle disputes concern- 
ing^ land titles. 

This government of the Dusine has no parallel in the colonial 
history of America. It was transplanted from the banks of 
the Rhine to the banks of the Wallkill. We are told that the 
only other European colony in which it had existed was a 
Hug-uenot settlement founded at about the same time in South 
Africa. 

The document establishing the government of the Dusine or 
Twelve Men is one of the papers that have come down in tne 
Patentees' trunk. It is in English, as follows: 

To all Christian People to whom These presents shall come 
or in any ways may concern Greeting. Whereas Edmond An- 
dross Esq'r Seigneur of Sansmarez, late Governor General 
under his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany &c., 
of all his Territorys In America By his Letters Pattent bearing 
Date the 2yth Day of September in the Year of our Lord 1677 
Did Give, Ratifye, Confirme and Grant unto Lewis DuBois 
and partners, that is to say, Christian Doyo, Abraham Haus- 
broecq. Andrics Lcfevre, Jean Broecq. Pierre Doyo, Laurens 
P.ivier. .\nthi>ny C"res])ell, .Abraham DuMois, Hugo Frere, Isaac 
DuBois and Simon Lefever their luirs and Assignes All That 
certain piece of Land lyeing at the South side of Rondout 
Creek or Kill begining from the High Hills Called Moggonck 
from them Stretching South East near the great River, to a 
certaine point or hook called the JufFrous IIo<->cke. lyeing in 
the long Beach named by the Indians Magaatranics. then North 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 71 

up along the River, to an Island in a Crooked Elbow, In the 
beginning of the long Beach Called by the Indians Raphoos 
then west on the High Hills to a place called Waratahoes and 
Tawarataque and soo along the said High Hills South West 
to Moggoncck aforesaid To hold unto the said Lewis DuBois 
and partners their heirs and Assignes, to the proper use and 
behoof of him the said Lewis DuBois and partners their heirs 
and Assignes forever. 

And Whereas the aforesaid Patentes in their life time and 
since their Decease their Severall heirs or Assignes have Sev- 
erally according to their Just Rights and Interests therein held 
Enjoyed and Improved some part of the aforesaid Land and 
premises Commonly known by the name of New Paltz, ac- 
cordingly to the Severall Divisions and partitions that have 
been made between them by Parale without Deed, and the 
other parts thereof yet Remaining In common and Undivided 
Nozv Know Yee That we whose names are under written and 
who have Signed and Sealed These presents being owners and 
Interested In the aforesaid Pattent, for the Good Order Regu- 
lation benefitts and profitts of the freeholders and Inhabitants 
in the said Pattent as likewise for the Maintaining. Preserving, 
Defending and Keeping Whole and Entire the full Right Title 
benefitts propertys and advantages belonging or in any wise 
appertaining unto the aforesaid freeholders and Inhabitants by 
Vertue and Authority of the above mentioned Pattent and of 
the Several Conveyances and Last Wills and Testaments of 
the aforesaid Pattcntecs and of their heirs and Assignes and 
for makeing good and firme the aforesaid Divisions and par- 
titions made by the aforesaid Patentees in tlu-ir lifetime and 
since their Decease by their Severall heirs and Assignes and 
for makeing a further and more perfect Division and Partition 
of the undivided Lands and premises now lyeing in Common 



y2 HISTORY Of XEli' PALTZ 

and Undivided and unimproved within the bounds of the afore- 
said Pattcnt hax'c Tliought fitt and Convenient and we Doe by 
these presents Covenant and Grant to and with each other, 
that there shall and may be Yearly and every Year forever 
hereafter Chosen and Elected for the purposes above mentioned 
by the pleurality of Votes of the freeholders and Inhabitants 
within the aforesaid Pattent Twelve good able and sufiicient 
men freeholders and Inhabitants who have an interest within 
the said pattent Representing the aforesaid Twelve Pattentees, 
That is to say out of every of us who are owners and occu- 
piers, or hath a Right In each of the aforesaid Pattents Shares 
Respectively One, which Election shall and may be held Yearly 
and every Year at the New Paltz aforesaid on the first Tuesday 
in April and in Case any of the freeholders being so Chosen 
and Elected as aforesaid Refuse Denye and will not Serve tnat 
Then he shall provide one who is likewise an owner and hath 
a Right in the same Pattentees Share in its Stead and place, 
who not being produced or Doth not appear within a fortnight 
after the Election to be held as aforesaid. Then the other 
Elected men shall Nominate and take one who is an owner 
and hath a Right within the said pattentees share to Act in 
his Stead And we Doe by These presents every of us severally 
in behalf of ourselves our heirs Executors Administrators and 
every of them and not Joyntly Give Grant and Bequeath unto 
the aforesaid Twelve men or the Major part of them to be 
elected and Nominated in manner as aforesaid full power and 
Authority to Act and Sett in Good order and unity all Common 
Affairs, Businesses or things comeing before them belonging to 
or concerning the Right Title Interest or property of the 
Township of the New Paltz aforesaid and Commonalty within 
the said Pattent According to Law or Equity and to the best 
of their knowledge and understanding And That if it should 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 73 

soe happen that the aforesaid Twelve men to be elected as 
aforesaid Should Disburse any money for Charges or other 
Expenses for Defending and preserving the Right Title Inter- 
est and property of the Township of the New Paltz afores'd, 
and the Commonalty within the said Pattent, That then we and 
€very of us Respectively according to our Respective Rights 
and Interests in the aforesaid Pattent shall bear and pay an 
equall proportion of the afores'd Charges and expenses soe 
beene at by the aforesaid Twelve men or any of them, and that 
they, the said Twelve men Shall and may Give Deeds of Par- 
tition or other proper Conveyances in Law for the Confirmation 
and Assertaining Each man's Just Share and Dividend of the 
aforesaid Divided land and premises according to the aforesaid 
Severall Devisions and partitions thereof made by the aforesaid 
Twelve pattentees in their lifetime and by the Severall heirs 
and Assigness since their Decease And we Doe by these pres- 
ents further give and Grant unto the aforesaid Twelve men to 
be Elected and Nominated as aforesaid or the Major part of 
them full power and authority to make a further and more 
perfect Division and partition of the aforesaid undivided Land 
and premisses or soe much thereof as they shall from time to 
time see cause fer or think convenient which Devision is to oe 
made in manner and forme following That is to say That the 
said Undivided Lande and premises or such jiart thereof as 
they shall from time to time see cause fer or think convenient 
shall be laid out in Twelve Equal Shares and Devisions soe 
that the one is not of more Valine than the other and Then the 
aforesaid Twelve Shares or Devisions shall be numbered and 
then the aforesaid Twelve men shall Draw Lotts for the same 
and such Share or Division as falls to the Lotts of the afore- 
said Twelve men Respectively Shall be and rcmaine to the 
proper use benefitt and behoof of us who are properly Inter- 



74 HISTORY Of XEJV PALTZ 

ested in the Respective pattentees Share they are soe elected 
and chosen for according to our Just Shares and Interests 
therein for which the aforesaid Twelve men are to Give Deeds 
of conveyance for the same, And that the same shall stand and 
Remaine as a full and perfect partition and Severance for the 
same. And that after such partition and Alottment made in 
manner as aforesaid We whose names are under subscribed 
and who have signed and sealed these presents Respectively 
and our heirs and Assignes shall stand to and agree to the said 
partition and Alottment soe to be made in manner as aforesaiu 
according to the true Intent and meaning of these presents And 
shall permit and suffer the same to stand Remaine and Abide in 
its full Strength and force forever as if we ourselves had been 
present and consented thereto and Gave Deeds of partition 
for the same And That the said Twelve men or such thereof 
as there shall be others Chosen in their stead at the End of 
the Year shall be accountable to the New Elected And Soe 
Yearly and every Year forever hereafter And soe having 
faithfully Served they shall be Duely and lawfully Dis- 
missed and Discharged for their proceeding in behalf of 
the Township and Commonalty as aforesaid. — And Now 
fc-r the True performance of all and singular the Articles 
Covenants and Agreements as aforesaid soe far as the same 
are to be performed by us Severally and Respectively, Each 
and every of us whose name arc hereunder Subscribed, Doe 
and Doth Severally bind himself his heirs, Executors and Ad- 
ministrators In the sum of fifty pounds currant money of the 
province of New York, to be paid unto each and every the 
other of us his heirs Executors and Administrators, upon the 
non performance of any of the Articles Covenants or Agree- 
ments aforesaid which on our several! and Resiiective i)arts 
are to ])c Done and ])erformed According to the True Intent 



HISTORY OF NE\^V PALTZ 



75 



and Meaning of These presents In Witness whereof we have 
hereunto of one Assent and Consent Sett our hands and affixed 
our Scales This Twenty-first Day of April In the first Year 
of his Majestys Reigne Anno Dom One Thousand Seven 
hundred and Twenty-Eight. 



Abraham du bois (seal) 

his 

Hugo X frere (seal) 

mark 

Andre le fevre (seal) 

isaac le Fevre (seal) 

yean le fevre (seal) 
Solomons has broucq (seal) 

Abraham Bevier (seal) 

Louis bevier (seav) 

his 
John X Teerpenningh (seal) 

mark 

Abraham doiau (seal) 

Crestian doio (seal) 

Jacob Frere (seal) 



Samuel Bevier (seal) 

Daniel DuBois (seal) 

Jacob hasbrouck (seal) 

hanrey doyo (seal) 

daniel has broucq (seal) 

Yan een (seal) 

his 

Hugo-hu-Frerc Junr. (seal) 

her 

Elizabet Een (seal) 

Sara een (seal) 

mark 
MariaMagdalena-M-Een(seal) 

mark 

matys slecht juneyer (seal) 

Anthonv Yelverton (seal) 



Sealed and Delivered by the within Subscribers Abraham 
DuBois, Hugo Frere, Andri LeFever, Samuel Bevier, Daniel 
DuBois, Jacob Hasbrouck. Isaac LeFevre. Jean LeFevre, Solo- 
mon Hasbroucq, Hcnrcy Doyo. Daniel Hasbroucq, Jan Een, 
Hugo Frere Junr., Abraham Bevier, Louis Bevier, John Teer- 
penningh, Elizabet Een. Sara Een. iMaria Magdelena Een, 



76 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

Mattys Sleclit Junr. and Abraham Doiou, Jacob Frere. In the 
presence of us, 

AHasbrouck. 

J. liriiyn. Junr. 

Sealed and DeHvered by the within subscriber Cristiaen 
doyo in the presence (^f us: Mv 15: 174 — . 

Isaak Doyo. 
Johannis Lefever. 

Sealed and Delivered by the Within Subscribed Anthony 
Yearenton in the presence of us April 8 Annoy : Dom : i J^i. 

abrahani van der marken. 
Jacobus Has brouck. 

Ulster ) 

^ ^ — Ss. 

County \ 

Be it remembered that on the Eig^ht Day of May in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and Seventy 
one. Personally. Came before me Dirck Wynkoop Junr. Esqr. 
one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said 
County Coll. Abrahatu Hasbrouck whome being Duly sworn 
on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and saith 
that he wass present and saw. .\braham Dubois. Hugo Frere, 
.-\ndri LeFever. Jacob Frere. Samuel Revier. Daniel Dubois. 
Jacob Hasbrouck. Isaac Le Fever. Jan Le Fevere. Salomons 
Hasbrouc(i, Hanrey Deyo. Daniel Hasbroucq. Jan Een. Hugo 
Frere Jun. Abraham Iknier. Louis Bevier. John Teerpenningh. 
Flizabet Fen. Sara Een. Maria Magtlalena Een. Mattys Slechi 
Jun. and Abraham Dciou, Syn, Seal and Deliver the within 
Deed, as their \'oluntary act and Deed for the use, therein men- 
tioned, and that at. Same Time, jacobus Rruvn lunr. and 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 77 

himself Subscribed their names thereto, as, Witnesses, and 
also, Abraham Deyo, acknowledged, at same time, before me 
that he had Executed the same deed as his Voluntary act and 
deed for the use therein mentioned, and that at the same time 
of Executing this deed, he was underage, but that now^ acknowl- 
edges, that the same is his Voluntary act and deed and at 
same time also appeared, Isaac Doyo, whom being duly sworn 
on the holy Evengelist of Almight god deposeth and saith, that 
he was present and saw Christian Doye Syn Seal and deliver 
the within deed, as his Voluntary act and deed for the use 
therein mentioned, and that, at same time Johannis Lefever 
and himself Subscribed their names thereto as Witnesses ana 
also, that on the Tenth day of said month Jacobus Hasbrouck, 
being duly sworn, as aforesaid saith that he wass present and 
saw Anthony Yelverton, syn seal and De Liver the within 
deed as his Volutary act and deed for the use therein men- 
tioned, and Also, that at same time Abraham Van dermercken 
and himself had Subscribed their names thereto as Witnesses, 
and I have perused the same and find no Material Erezures, 
nor Interlinations therein. Wherefore I do Alow the same to 
be recorded D : Wynko<:)p Jun. 



78 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



CHAPTER IX 

The Indians and Hunting Stories 

The Indians make but a small figure in the early history 
of New Paltz. There is no account of their having ever 
troubled the inhabitants a particle. This was because the Paltz 
people had honestly paid for the land and treated the Indians 
kindly. The last remains of the red men in this locality are 
said to have lived in a little village on the south bank of the 
Plattekill, where it empties into the Wallkill. Many arrow 
heads, both of the kind used in hunting and in war, have been 
picked up in that locality. The Normal School grounds were 
an Indian burying ground. An Indian skeleton, with large 
beads, obtained no doubt from some Dutch trader, was dug up 
near Mr. Low's brick yard when the railroad was in process 
of construction. 

In the sale of the patent the red men reserved a tract called 
Ah Qua, southeast of Perrine's Bridge, on account of supposed 
mineral wealth. 

Old stories relate that at butchering time they would visit 
the farmers' yards to select bits of the entrails of the slaugh- 
tered animals. 

The few remaining at that time went off with Sir William 
Johnson, the Tory leader in the Revolutionary war. Now and 
then one would come around with baskets to sell. Once a 
member of such a company was drowned in the Wallkill, at 
Libertvvillc. Then they came no more, saying that the 
(lri>wiu'(l man "spooked" them. One of the last of the Indians 
was called Tottoi. He would make maple sugar and trade it 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 79 

ofif for bread. When he died he was wrapped in a coffin of 
bark and buried by Daniel and Levi Van Wagenen. Probably 
the last visit of the Indians to this place was about 1820, when 
two of them came to the reservation at Ah Qua. It is related 
that at one time Indians came near Dashville and cut some 
timber for baskets. Some of the people started to drive them 
away, but Ezekiel Eltinge said "let them alone ; they have 
the right." His remark was no doubt on account of the reser- 
vation at Ah Qua. 

The Indians kept up the custom of holding kint-a-koys at 
Ah Qua after the whites had settled around. They would ,sing 
and feast as well as dance, and borrow vessels in which to 
prepare the food for these occasions. No matter how clean 
these vessels were when borrowed the Indians would wash 
them. The exact spot on which these kint-a-koys were held 
was about a half a mile southeast of the Bontecoe school-house, 
where the house and garden of the late Abm. Freer were lo- 
cated. The Indian title to the reservation at Ah Qua was 
probably never extinguished, but finally the tract was sold for 
taxes and in that way became the property of the whites. 

There was a family of Indians that would come and live in 
a hut in the woods of Cornelius DuPiois (now the W. H. D. 
Blake place), and with his permission cut down anv timber 
they desired, which they would manufacture into scoops and 
baskets. Stephen (]. DuBois tells us that when he was a small 
child he visited this Indian family many times. There was a 
little Indian, called Jake, the grandson of the old Indian, who 
was the head of the family, and who used to shoot squirrels 
from the trees with his bow and arrows. Stephen tells us tliat 
one day, when he was on a visit to the hut, little Jake showed 
a skill with the bow and arrow nearly equal to that of his 
grandfather, by shooting a spider on the opposite side of the 



8o HISTORY Of XEll' PALTZ 

shanty. After a wliile the old Indian, who was the head of the 
family, was accidentally drowned in crossing the Wallkill, 
which he frequently did to visit a white man, named "Mocky" 
Wacknian. wlu) lived on the other side of the Wallkill. with 
whom he was very friendly. After his death the family offered 
a portion of his clothing to "Mocky," who. thinking it a pity 
to take any of the poor Indian's clothes, declined the gift, 
when the garment was instantly tossed in the fire. 

The following story Aunt Judy Jackson relates as having 
happened in her childhood days, about 1812, when she was a 
slave in the family of Jeremiah Merritt on the county house 
plains : 

Her master in the fall had taken her behind him on horse- 
back and started for the mountain to bring up the cattle which 
had been running at large in the woods. It was growing late 
in the fall and it was time to bring up the stock for the winter. 

Suddenly as they were riding along they came upon an In- 
dian wigwam. Merritt jumped off the horse which he left in 
her charge and entered the hut. He remained there a long, 
long time. At last she grew tired and moving up to the wig- 
wam pushed open the door. There were about a dozen In- 
dians sitting on the floor engaged in making baskets. One 
man. who seemed to Ix' tlie chief, had a ring hanging from his 
nose. Merritt was talking with the Indians and did not go to 
the mountains to get the cattle that day. Aunt Judy is posi- 
tive that those Indians were spies who had come probably from 
Canada to get what information they could in the interest of 
the English Government. She says, moreover, that Merritt 
was a tory and this accounted for the long talk he was having 
with the Indians in the wigwam. The visit of the Indians 
attracted great attenlimi anrl the people from all the country 
around went to see them. 



HISTORY OF XEJV PALTZ 8i 

Mrs. Edward McEntee's recollections of her early child- 
hood days, as related to us, contain more accounts of the In- 
dians than the recollections of any of the other old people with 
whom we have talked. They probably remained longer in 
the locality about Rosendale Plains than elsewhere in this 
vicinity. On the east side of the road was an Indian burying 
ground. One of the neighbors attempted to plow it up, but 
the red men made him stop. The Indians had bark wigwams 
scattered through the woods. The spot where one of these 
had stood would be marked long after it had disappeared by a 
patch of tansy, that being a favorite herb with the red men. 
She says she saw the Indians many times when a child. They 
were kind people if treated well. In their wigwams they 
would lie on the floor with their feet to the fire. Sometimes 
they would pass the house, the pappooses strapped to their 
fathers' backs. The little ones would laugh and call to her. 
When she was a young woman she lived at Benjamin Van 
Wagenen's in this village. The Indians would come and shoot 
with bow and arrow at copper coins at a distance of about fifty 
yards. If the>- hit tlie penny they would keep it. (This was 
a travelling company.) When she was a small child an In- 
dian woman would call at the house and delight to play with 
her, sometimes lifting her up by one arm, but this her mother 
forbade for fear of injury. At one time there was a wigwam 
right by her grandfather's door. When the first Freer lo- 
cated at Bontecoe an Indian set up his wigwam in the clearing. 
Sometimes he would lie drunk on the door-step. He was not 
disturbed and after a time went away. 

A story related by .\unt Judy Jackson is as follows : 

When she was a slave in the family of Andries P. LeFevre 
at Kcttleborough. about 1820. six Indians came dressed in 



82 HISTORY OF \Ell' PALTZ 

women's clothing. They lurked about the neighborhood for 
some time. At Mrs. Andries J. LeFevre's they tapped on the 
window. At Matthew LeFevre's they entered the house and 
talked but little, but asked for buttermilk. The buttermilk 
was brought frtJin the cellar and then it was discovered that 
they had on male attire under their female apparel. After a 
while Daniel Deyo, of Ireland Corners (grandfather of Dr. 
Abm. Deyo), had the Indians arrested and found that they 

were armed. They said that they wanted to find John . 

Now John resided in the neighborhood and had confessed 

to perpetrating an inhuman act of cruelty upon an Indian 
family. He had entered an Indian wigwam (just where Aunt 
Jud\' did not know), and finding a squaw and her pappoose 
had asked the squaw to go and get him a drink of water. 
While she was gone he picked up the papoose and threw il 
into a pot of boiling water on the fire. He then hid and es- 
caped the fury of the Indians, who, however, hunted him for 
years. The Kettleborough people told the Indians that they 

did not know who John was. He w-as living, however. 

in the neighborhood, and his house at Jenkintown is still 
standing. 

Stolen by the Indians 

Stephen G. DuBois and his sister, Mrs. Hand, tell us the fol- 
lowing story as having been related to them by the old folks, 
but which must be simply another version of the capture of 
the wife and children of the original Louis DuBois, at King- 
ston. The event, as related to them, when they were children, 
took place at Libcrtyvillc and is as follows : 

A woman named Katrina DuBois (they do not know her 
husband's name) was carried away captive by the Indians, 
with an infant in her arms and a child at her side. The bus- 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 83 

band followed in pursuit. He saw a savage in the act of 
drawing his bow. In his haste and nervousness he could ..ot 
get the arrow to fit the string. Before he could shoot, DuBois 
sprang upon him and ran his sword through him with such 
force that it struck into a tree behind him. This happened 
near Lewis Hasbrouck's present residence, in Libertyville, by 
the brook now called the Stenykill. DuBois' wife, not recog- 
nizing the pursuers, started to run with the Indians. DuBois 
then shouted to his wife, "Trene, stop, or I'll shoot you." 
Then she recognized his voice and returned. 

Both Air. DuBois and his sister, Mrs. Hand, repeat this 
story, positively and emphatically, as being told to them by 
the old people. 

Elihu Schoonmaker likewise remembers hearing this story 
in his young days and says that a black oak tree, at the lo- 
cality described above, was pointed out to him as marking the 
spot where DuBois slew the Indian with his sword. 

Some Hunting Stories 

One of the most interesting chai)ters of the history of New 
Paltz might he given to the hunting stories of the olden times. 
One of the most undoubted truthfulness is that of Hons Decker, 
of Shawangunk, who pursued a deer from rock to rock at 
Paltz Point, until it had descended to its last place of refuge 
on table rock, called by old people Ephriam's Point. Having 
no gim. he seized the animal by the horns, and a contest of 
strength ensued. A companion, who was with Decker, cried 
out that the infuriated creature would fling him over the cliff, 
but the introi)id man replied that if he did he would i>ull him 
back. Finally, with the aid of his pocket knife, the prize was 
secured. 



84 HIS TO R y O F N E IV PA LTZ 

Another hunting story is that of Peter LeFevre, grand- 
father of the writer, and Louis Hardenburgh, grandfather of 
the late Senator Jacob Hardenburgh, fomierly of Kingston. 
Louis was a sturdy blacksmith, his shop being located on the 
public highway about four miles north of this village. Peter 
LeFevre lived in the old stone house still standing near by. 
These two followed a bear to her den in the Gerhow region, 
and Hardenburgh entering the den, slew the brute — an ex- 
ploit requiring as much courage, perhaps, as the famous ad- 
ventures of General Putnam and the wolf. P>ut another ver- 
sion of this story is that one of the hunters shot into the den 
and killed the bear before Hardenburgh entered it. 

Major Isaac LeFevre, of Swartekill, a famous surveyor in 
his day. was once employed to make surveys in the neighbor- 
hood of Paltz Point (Sky Top), about 1820. and on drawing 
toward the rockiest portion of the mountain his employer (Mr. 
Mullenix) told him to stop, that the rest of the mountain 
might be left for the foxes. Major Isaac asked him if he 
would give it to him for his day's work. The reply being in 
the affirmative, he received twenty acres for his day's work. 
This he afterwards transferred to Mr. Pell, of Esopus, and it 
is well settled that this identical tract was the highest part of 
the mountains, which was never owned by John F. Stokes 
and was not secured by Mr. A. K. Smiley until some years 
after his purchase of Mohonk. 

One day when Major Isaac Lefevre was going out on a 
surveying expedition he shot an elk. He dressed the animal 
and hung it up in a small tree. On his return in the evening 
he found a deer had been smelling in the carcass of the e!k 
and become fastened by his horns. He dispatched the deer 
and thought he liad done quite as good a day's work at hunt- 
ing as at surveying. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 85 

Wild turkeys were found in the woods in this vicinity in 
the old times. Levi Schryver informs us that the locality in 
Esopus, which still bears the name of Calicoon (turkey) hook, 
was noted in old times for the wild turkeys found there. 

Aunt Judy Jackson's stories concerning the wild animals 
that roamed the forest in her young days are very thrilling. 
There were more wild beasts in the Libertyville neighborhood, 
when she was there, than in the Kettelborough neighborhood, 
where she afterwards lived. Once, in her childhood, when she 
was a slave in Jeremiah Alerritt's family, she was bringing 
home the cows when she saw a panther crouched on a limb of 
a tree overhead. He paid no attention to her but sprang for 
the cows. He missed his prey and the cattle scattered widely, 
bellowing as the\' ran. Shortly afterwards the panther at- 
tacked a cow belonging to Cornelius DuBois. He was tear- 
ing her hind quarters when seen. The cow was not dead, but 
died of her injuries. The panther escaped to the woods. 

When Aunt Judy was a slave at Andries P. LeFevre's a 
panther was shot in the woods of his father, Philip. The ball 
hit the ferocious beast in the head. He made one tremendous 
spring for the man who shot him. The man dodged and the 
panther fell dead on the ground. Aunt Judy says that she 
has "seen a sight of wild animals in her day, but the panther 
is the savagest of all." 

Wolves and bears were quite numerous, especially on the 
west side of the Wallkill. Cornelius Duliois, the youngest of 
the name, brother of Josiah DuHois of Poughwaughtenonk, 
had a narrow escape from being killed by wolves, lie was 
skating on the \\'allkill. alone, when two wolves came out of a 
pine wo<^ds. on the east side of the Wallkill, near Libertyville, 
and chased him. P>y skating he kept ahead of them, but grow- 
ing tired he bethought himself of the dogs at a neighlx)ring 



86 II I STORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

house, near the stream. He whistled to the dogs. They came 
and fought with the wolves. The dogs were killed, but Mr. 
DuBois escaped witli his life. 

It must be remembered that these stories which Aunt Judy 
tells are not what she has heard from older people, but wiiat 
occurred in the neighborhood while she lived there. 

Cornelius DuBois (father of the one just sjioken of) owned 
land on the east side of the W'allkill and had a barrack there 
where he kept sheep. Farmers stored much of their hay in 
barracks in those days. Aunt Judy had herself seen wolves 
in pursuit of these sheep. 

Bears would also come around. At one time Aunt Judy 
noticed that some animal had been injuring the corn in the 
field. She thought the damage had been done by a cow, but 
it proved to be the work of a bear. 

One man started alone in pursuit of the animal and fol- 
lowed him to the mountain. Others followed and found the 
man dead, having, it is thought, run himself to death. 

Wild Pigeons and Larger Game 

In those days, about 1820, game was still quite abundant. 
Nearly every year great flocks of wild pigeons would come and 
almost every family was provided with nets for catching them 
and likewise with stool pigeons. Catching pigeons was a 
favorite si)ort. Sle])]Kn ( i. Dul»ois relates that one day as he 
was riding, on horseback, in comi)any with about a dozen 
others, to attend town meeting at the Paltz, the pigeons passed 
over their heads in immense numbers. 

Peter W. Dul'ois' father. W'ilhclmus, was quite a hunter, 
and he and jolin l-"uller, grandfather of W'm. I'uUer. killed 
many bears and wolves, before the digging of the Delaware & 



HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 87 

Hudson Canal, but after the construction of the \y\.^ ditch 
these wild animals did not venture to cross it. 

One of the last wolves trapped by Fuller was on the Mul- 
lenix place on the mountains. In this case Fuller had intended 
to bring the captive alive to Libertyville, but the farmer seeing 
the destroyer of his sheep in the trap exclaimed "You are 
the one that has been killing my sheep," and slew him on 
the spot. 

Another story about one of the last wolves caught in this 
vicinity is concerning one caught on the Mathusalem Eltinge 
farm, which extended from Springtown up to Bontecoe Point. 
In this case, too, the wolf was brought, alive, in the trap. 

Mr. Edward DuBois, of Marlborough, favors us with an 
account of the capture of the very last wolf in this portion of 
the country which was trapped by Fuller in the winter of 
1826 or '2^. Mr. DuBois says: 

"It was a field day for Libertyville. T was quite young at 
the time, yet I recollect his bringing the beast alive with the 
trap on its leg into my father's kitchen, where Mr. Blake now 
lives. * * The bronzed hunter and the captive wolf, the 
old cellar kitchen, and an old oaken table, upon which two 
terror stricken urchins — a younger brother and myself, sought 
refuge, are among the clearly defined impressions of my 
childhood." 

Desperate Fight with a Bear 

Mr. J. Xelson Tcrwilligar gives us an account of a famous 
bear hunt that hajipLMied about 1820, when he was a lad of 
sixteen. Henry Williams, a famous hunter, and another hunter 
named Watkins had followed a bear all the way from Tucker's 
Corner, through New Paltz, crossing the Wallkill at what is 



88 III STORY or XEW PALTZ 

now Luther Hasbrouck's place, and running him into a hole in 
the rocks near I'.ontecoe Point. The hunters went home and 
returned the next morning. They found the bear, who was a 
very large fellow, and W'atkins shot and wounded him. The 
bear instantly turned and gave chase. W'atkins climbed a 
tree but the bear was too quick for him ; seized and pulled 
him down and got on top of him. Then Williams took a hand 
in the fray and proceeded to hammer the bear with his gini 
and took him l)y the ears to pull him otY his comrade. Finally 
the bear was killed and Mr. Terwilligar tells us he had a piece 
of the meat which was very fat. W'atkins long bore the marks 
of the fight, the bear's teeth having left wounds in his head 
as large as a man's fingers. 



firSTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



89 



CHAPTER X 



Propkkty Holders at New Paltz in Early Days 



TAXPAYERS IN 1/12 

The first tax list which we have found is among- the Freer 
papers and is as follows showing the amount of property in 
1712: 

The freeholders, inhabitants, residents & sojourners of the 
New Paltz in the county of Ulster, their real and personal 
estate rated & assessed on the i6th day of January 171 5 by 
the assessors chosen for the same on their oaths to pay at the 
rate of three pence half farthing per pound, to pay said county 
quota, layd by an act of General Assembly, entitled an act for 
the levying of ten thousand ounces of plate or fourteen thou- 
sand five hundred forty-five Lyon dollars : 

Abraham Doyo £ 45 Abraham freer 25 

Christian Doyo 50 Jacob freer 25 

Pieter Doyo 45 Elias Uin 35 

Henry Doyo 45 Solomon Dubois 100 

Abraham Hasbrouck .... 200 Louis Dubois 75 

Louys Bevier 300 Joseph Hasbrouck 25 

Jean Hasbrouck 150 Tunis Jacobse 10 

Mary Dubois 150 Hendrick Van Weye 15 

Abraham Dubois 270 Jacob Clearwater 5 

Andrew Lefever & Com- Gerrit Lambertse 5 

pany 240 Jan Tcrpening 5 

Hugo fifrer 75 Total £1895 

Total tax £24, 13 shillings. 
A True Copy. 

W'm. Notingham, 

Clerk. 



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HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 91 

The above list shows that in 1712 four of the original Paten- 
tees were still alive, namely Abraham and Jean Hasbrouck, 
Louis Bevicr and Abraham DuBois, also Mary widow of Isaac 
DuBois. The other tax payers are sons of Patentees, namely : 
the four sons of Pierre Deyo, the three sons of Simon LeFever, 
three of the four sons of Hugo Freer, two sons of Louis Du- 
Bois, Joseph, son of Abraham Hasbrouck. The only other 
persons on the tax list are Elias L'in the ancestor of the Fan 
family, who married Flizabeth, daughter of Anthony Crispell 
the Patentee, Jacob Clearwater, who was a brother-in-law of 
Abm. Deyo and resided at Bontecoe, Jan Terpening who also 
resided at Bontecoe, and was from Flanders ; also Tunis 
Jacobse (Clearwater), Hendrick \^an Weye and Garritt Lam- 
bertse. 

The Building ok the First Stone Church 

The next list of this nature that we ha>'e at New Paltz is the 
names of those w'ho built the first stone church in 1720 which 
is found in the French records of the church as follows : Samuel 
Bevier, Louis Bevier, Jr., Abraham Doyo, Christian Doyo, 
Henry Doyo, Abraham DuBois, Solomon DuBois, Louis Du- 
Bois. Jr., Daniel DuBois, Philip DuBois, Andre LeFevre, Isaac 
LeFevre, Jean LeFevre, Mary Hasbrouck (widow of Abra- 
ham the Patentee) , Jacob Hasbrouck, Joseph Hasbrouck, Hugh 
Freer, Abraham Freer, Jacob Freer, Elias Un. 

The last named, who is the ancestor of the Fan family, is 
the only person not of the Patentee families who assisted in 
building the church. Abraham DuBois was the only one 
of the Patentees living in 1720. Abm. DuBois long survived 
his associates and lived until 1731. 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



Freeholders in 1728 

The next list in ix)int of time is found in the Documentary 
History of New York, pa^c 971, and contains the names of all 
the freeholders in the precinct in 1728, as follows: Samuel 
Bevier, Christian Deynu, llcndrick Dcyou, Peter Deyou, Solo- 
mon Hasbrouck, Jacob Hasbrouck, Daniel Hasbrouck, Hugo 
Freer, Hugo Freer, Jr., Isaac Freer, Jacob Freer, Lewis Du- 
Bois, Jr., Solomon DuBois, Abraham DuBois, Daniel Dubois, 
John LeFevre, Andries LeFevre, Isaac LeFevre, John Terpen- 
ing. Dirck Terpening. Augustus \'andemark, Nicholas Roosa, 
Peter Low. ( larrit Keetaltas, Roeloff Eltinge, Esq, 

Xi:w Paltz Tax Pavkrs in 1728 

The follcnvinjj: list of New Paltz taxpayers in 1728 is in the 
county clerk's office at Kingston : 

Elsie Djou [widow of Peter Low 5 

Abraham] £ 23 Solomon DuBois 69 

Christian Djou 30 Louis DuBois 67 

Hendricus Djou 30 Abraham DuBois 193 

Peter Djou 19 Daniel DuBois 99 



Jacob Deyo [Jacobus ?] . . i 

Moses Deyo i 

Solomon Hasbrouck .... 42 

Daniel Hasbrouck 62 

Jacob Hasbrouck 92 

Andries LeFevre 40 

Jan LeFevre S^ 

Isaac LeFevre 31 



Abraham Clearwater ... i 

Jan Terpenning 10 

Samuel Bevier 95 

Louis Bevier 26 

August \^andemark 2 

Anthony Westbrook 4 

Roelif Elting, Esq 10 

Nicholas Roosa 13 



Hugo Freer 6<; Mattys Slecht 10 

Jacob- Freer 6 Col. Jacob Rutson (non- 
Hugo Freer. Jr 12 resident) 5 

Jonas Frere i Tiarret Keeteltas 5 

Widow of Elias I-.an 20 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 9S 

List of Sl.\veholders in 1755. 

The next list of property holders of any kind that we find 
is a list of slaveholders in 1755 in the Documentary History 
of New York. Samuel Bevier, Philip Bevier, Jacobus Bevier,. 
Abm. Bevier, Christian Doyo, Abm. Doyo, Peter Doyo, Jr.^ 
Sarah Hasbrouck (widow of Solomon). Benjamin Hasbrouck 
(Wallkill). Daniel Hasbrouck, Jacob Hasbrouck, Lewis Du- 
Bois, Solomon DuBois. Benj. DuBois, Hendricus DuBois^ 
Simon DuBois. Hugo Freer, Isaac Freer, Mary LeFevre 
(widow of Isaac), Petronella LeFevre (widow of Simon), 
Nathaniel LeFevre, Abm. LeFevre, Andries LeFevre, Abm. 
Hardenburgh. Geesje Fan (widow of Jan), Anetje \'ande- 
mark. Xoah Eltinge, Capt. Josiah Eltinge. 

Abm. Hardenburgh and Solomon DuBois each owned 7 
slaves, Simon DuBois 6 and others a less number. The list 
shows that in 1755 all the sons of the Patentees were dead 
except Solomon and Louis DuBois, Jr., Samuel Bevier, Daniel 
and Jacob Hasbrouck. 

Value of the Precinct of New Paltz in 1765 

We copy from a collection warrant dated at Kingston, Au- 
gust 27, 1765, the list given below of the estimated value of 
the real and personal estates of the precinct of New Paltz. 
The warrant was signed by "Dirck Wynkoop, Jr.. John Du- 
mond. Charles Dewit. Elias Depuy, Abraham Hardenburgh, 
Johannis H. Jansen and John Wandle — Supervisors elected 
and chosen for the several towns, manor and precincts of 
Ulster county." It was issued to raise money, pursuant to an 
Act to rnise £52.000 for paying 1,715 men to be employed in 
an ev^c'lfion against the French fort at Crown Point and 
against the Indians; and to raise f 100.000 for paving the ex~ 



94 1/ J STORY OF NEW PALTZ 

penses of 2,600 for the invasion of Canada ; and also to raise 
i 1 00,000 and £60,000 for like purposes under other Acts. One 
hundred and thirteen pounds, three shilhnp^s eight pence and 
one-fifth of a farthing was the amount to he collected from the 
])reciiict of New Paltz. This precinct tlien included the pres- 
ent town of New Paltz, the whole of Lloyd and parts of the 
towns of Rosendale, Esopus and Gardiner. 

The warrant directed that after the tax was collected it 
should be lodged in the hands of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck, 
county treasurer, retaining the fees. 

In 1765 there were only six Townships in the entire county, 
viz: Kingston, Marbletown, Hurley, Rochester, Shawangunk 
and New Paltz. 

Dirck W'ynkoop, Jr., represented Kingston ; Abraham Ilar- 
denburgh. New Paltz; Johannes H. Jansen, Shawangunk; 
Elias Depuy, Rochester. The remaining three Supervisors, 
viz : John Dumond, Ch. Dewitt and John Wandle must have 
represented the towns of Hurley and Marbletown and a pre- 
cinct or manor not yet organized into a Township. 

An estimate or list of all the estates real and personal of all 
the freeholders and inhabitants of tlie precinct of New Paltz 
in 1765: 

NAMK.S. \AIAi:. N.\.\li:S. V.VLUE 

Peter Dujou £31 si Johannis Dujou £ 9 s o 

John Terwilliger 14 2 Petrus Low 7 o 

.Abraham Harden- .\braham Bevier 50 2 

burgh 65 16 Cierret Frere 7 5 

Abraham Hasbrouck Jacobus Bevier 10 o 

(for his farm).... 71 3 Benjamin DuBois. .. . 29 to 

Hcndricus Dubois ... . 55 10 Johannis Dujou. Jr. . . 4 10 

Pliiiip Dul)ois 8 o .Sojoinon Low 3 10 

Cornelius Dubois 6:^ 12 lonas Frere 25 o 



HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 



95 



NAMES, VALUE. 

Christopher Dujou . .-£15 sn 

Christiaen Dujou, Jr. . i 5 

]\Ioses Dujou 7 o 

Jacobus Hasbrouck. . . 13 2 

Johannis Frere 15 8 

Benjamin Frere 8 4 

Hugo Frere i 5 

Jacob Frere 12 o 

Hugo Frere, Jr 16 16 

Benjamin Dujou 16 o 

David Akker 12 

The estate of Marynus 

Van Aken 2 10 

Daniel Lefever 17 o 

Petrus Lefever 21 12 

Johannis Lefever 24 12 

Abraham Een 18 17 

Nathaniel Dubois .... 23 o 

Jacob Hasbrouck, Jr. . 65 o 

Abraham Dujou 50 o 

Matthew Lefever i 18 

Simon DuBois 42 o 

Marritie Dubois (wi- 
dow) 4 o 

Josiah Eltinge 66 15 

Roloff J. Eltinge i 3 

Abraham Eltinge. ... 3 12 

Petronella Lefever ... 5 o 

Andries Lefever, Jr... 14 o 

Winetie Hasbrouck. . . 48 5 

Johannis M. Low. .. . 6 12 



NAMES. \ALUE. 

Abraham Vandemark .£951 

Benjamin L Frere.. . . 10 10 

Petrus Hasbrouck. .. . 12 16 

John Hasbrouck 12 10 

Lewis Bevier. ....... 19 2 

Nathaniel Lefever . . .. 22^ o 

Catholinetie Lefever. . 3 o 

Noah Eltinge 49 5 

Dominie M on riches 

Geotschius 1 8 

Lewis Dubois 17 15 

Abraham LeFever... 21 10 

Andries Lefever 27 12 

Samuel Schoonmaker. i o 

Petrus Schoonmaker. . i o 
Catholinitie Bevier 

( widow j I 10 

George Stover. ...... i 16 

Frederick Hyms 4 o 

Joseph Griffen 3 

Joseph Terwilliger ... 6 10 

Jonathan Terwilliger. 16 2 

Isaac Frere 14 10 

Joseph Frere 3 10 

Petrus Van Wagenen. 8 10 
Abraham \'an Wage- 
nen I 13 

Abraham Donaldson.. 17 14 

Michael De Vou 3 o 

Robert Hurs 5 

David Auchmoody ... 5 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



NAMKS. 


\ALUE. 




Thomas Wool sty. 


...i 5 


s 5 


Israel Koole 


. . . 2 


I 


Alexander Mackey, 


1 


2 


James Turtle 


1 


17 


John Woolsey 




5 


Peter Koleman 




6 


James Wheeler . . . . 


. . . 2 


7 


James Hurta 




H 


Murry Lester 




i6 


A'aluntinc Parkus. , 


, . . 2 


i6 


Ebenezer (lilbert . . 


••• 5 





Ebenezer Parkus. . 


I 


4 


Livelet Hubble 


• • 3 


8 


Christiaen Dujou.. . 


I 


12 


Richard Monion. . . 






Michael Palniiter. . 




^3 


Anthony Yarnton. . 


1 


i8 


Abraham Brister. . 


••• 3 


6 


Johannis Presslar. . 


I 


15 


Jadediah Dean 


I 


8 


Simon Crandle 


I 





William Ellsworth . 




12 



NAMKS. VALUE. 

Oliver Gray i 

Phclick Ransom 2 

Nathaniel Wyard .... 1 

Abraham Hass 

Lewis Pontinear 1 

Robert Sergeant i 

Joseph Coddington ... 4 

Daniel Dujou 2 

Abm. Dujou, for the 
estate where his son 

Daniel lives on 5 

Jacob DuBois 15 

James Hue i 

Martinus Ijakeman . .. 

]\Ioses Nap i 

Hcndrick Wasemiller. 
Petrus Vandemerk . . . 

Daniel Frere i 

Christiaen Achtmoemy 1 

\\'illiam Frere i 



sio 

17 

Q 

15 
O 

12 

O 

7 



o 
o 
o 
6 
o 

4 

10 

12 

o 

6 



Total value ^1.354 si8 

This assessment roll is valuable, not only as showing who 
were taxpayers and the amount of each assessment in 1765, 
but it is still more useful because with the aid of some cor- 
roborating evidence, we are able to determine where nearly 
all of the larger taxpayers lived. 

It is evident that the assessor in making out the roll com- 
menced at the south bonds of the precinct as it then was at 
what is now Tuthill and c<intinucd on tlie west side i>f the 
Wallkill until reaching the north bounds of the Patent at Mud 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 97 

Hook; then crossing the Wallkill returned to the village on 
the east side of the stream and then passed on south to the 
Plains and Kettelboro ; thence east to Jenkintown and the 
Freer patent, and finally picked up the small taxpayers along 
the Hudson River and elsewhere. 

As far as the Huguenot names on the roll are concerned it 
must be remembered that in this list we are dealing with the 
grandsons of the Patentees. 

Commencing with the first name on the list, Peter Deyo is 
the son of Hendricus and lived at Tuthill where he had de- 
scendants living until modern times. Peter and his son had a 
patent for land in Shawangunk. 

Abraham Hardenbergh, who was Supervisor and one of the 
heaviest taxpayers lived in a stone house, recently tumbled into 
ruins, just below Tuthill. Here the family had a large tract 
of land. Abraham Hardenbergh's grandsons Abraham and 
Jacob, were the last of the name to occupy the land of their 
ancestors, x\braham living in the fine, old brick house near the 
Guilford church and Jacob on the old homestead, where Crines 
Jenkins who married Jacob's daughter Rachel afterward lived. 

Abraham Hasbrouck who comes next and is assessed for 
the heaviest amount is Col. Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston. 
This farm at Guilford is still owned in the family. Col. 
Abraham Hasbrouck was probably the most prominent man in 
the county in his day. 

Hendricus and Cornelius DuBois are brothers, sons of Solo- 
mon. Philip is Hendricus' son. Hendricus lived on the Capt. 
Jacob M. DuBois place of our day, Cornelius a short distance 
south of where Capt. W. H. D. Blake now lives. Philip kept 
a public house at Libertyville. Cornelius and Hendricus were 
men of large means and influential in the community as their 
descendants are at the present day. 



98 lilSTOKY OF .\EH' PALTZ 

Abraham and Jacobus Bevier arc brothers, sons of Samuel 
and grandsons of Louis the Patentee. Abraham Hved just 
south of Butterville. His wife was^ Margaret, daughter of 
Roelif Ehinge, the first of the name at Xew Paltz. Their 
son Abraham moved to Chenango county. 

Benjamin DuBois was the first of the name at Springtown 
and his descendants still reside there and until recently a little 
further north. Benjamin is the son of Daniel and grandson 
of Isaac the Patentee. 

Jonas Freer is the son of Hugo, senior, and grandson of the 
Patentee. Jonas lived at Kline Bontecoe on what is now the 
R. V. N. Beaver place. His descendants reside in various 
places in this vicinity. Garret Freer is the nephew of Jonas 
and son of Hugo. jun. of Bontecoe. 

Christopher Deyo lived at Springtown. He is the brother 
of Peter and Johanes, whose names have appeared on the list 
and of Benjamin, whose name comes later. Christo])her is 
the ancestor of Rev. Paul T. Deyo. 

Moses Deyo is the son of Christian and grandson of Pierre 
the Patentee. He and his son Christian. Jr. reside where their 
descendants have since lived and near where James E. and 
Matthew Deyo now reside. 

Jacobus Hasbrouck is the son of Solomon. He probably 
owned the Simon L. DuBois farm. .\t anv rate his son Ben- 
jamin owned it and gave a life estate in it to his son. 

We have now come to the Freer settlement at Mud Hook 
and Bontecoe. Hugo jun. is the son of Hugo, sen.. Jacob is 
his cousin. Plugo. Jnhn and Benjamin are Hugo, jun.'s sons. 

The assessor having crossed the W'allkill, at what is now 
Perrine's Bridge, is coming southward on the cast side of the 
stream. 

Benjamin Deyo. who is the ancestor of the Bontococ Deyos, 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 99 

occupies the house of his father Hendricus, which is known as 
the Abni. W. Deyo farm in our day. 

The three LeFevres, Daniel, Petrus and Johannes, are sons 
of Isaac, the first of the name at Bontecoe. 

Abraham Ean is the son of Jan and grandson of Elias. 
His farm, which is still owned in the family joined the LeFevre 
estate on the south as it does, to-day. 

Here the assessor makes a break and inserts the name of 
Nathaniel DuBois, who built the first mill at Libertyville and 
is the son of Jonathan and grandson of Louis, jun. 

Right here should come the names of Petrus and John Has- 
brouck. sons of Solomon, which do not appear on the roll until 
a little later. Petrus owned and occupied what is now the • 
Walsh house at ^liddletown and John the old stone house of 
his father, a short distance south, which tumbled into ruins 
about 1870. 

W'e are now back to the village. 

Jacob Hasbrouck, Jr. built at a later date the house where 
his grcatgrandson Abm. M. Hasbrouck now lives, but in 1765 
he was living and quite certainly keeping a store in what is 
now the Memorial House. 

Abraham Deyo (2) lived in the homestead in this village, 
which passed from one Abraham to another and is now owned 
by Abm. Deyo Brodhead. 

Simon DuBois is the son of Daniel and grandson of Isaac 
the Patentee. He occupied the house now owned by his de- 
scendants, ^larv DuBois Berry's daughters, which has always 
been in the family and is the oldest house in the village. 
Maritje (widow) who is assessed for a small amount is Simon's 
mother. 

Josiah Eltingc owned and occupied the house still called 
the "Fltingc Homestead." and Roclif J. and Abraham arc his 



L.cFC 



lOO HISTORY OF NEIV PALTZ 

sons. Here Roelif J. kept a store in Revolutionary times. 
Abraham afterward lived in the house about a mile north of 
the village, which has ever since been in the family and where 
his great grandson S. L. F. Elting now lives. 

Andries LeFevre, Jr., who is the last of that line of LeFevres, 
lived with his mother Petronella in the old homestead, since 
torn down, in the north part of the present church yard. 

Winetie Hasbrouck is the widow of Daniel, son of Abraham 
the Patentee. She lived with her six sons directly across the 
street from the present church building and the house is still 
owned in the family. 

Johannes M. Low lived in the house which had come to him 
from his father-in-law Hugo Freer, Sn. and this is still stand- 
ing, being the most northern of the old stone houses on the 
street. 

The next two names on the list, Abraham Vandemark and 
Benj. I. Freer, we can not place. 

The next name, Lewis Bevier, puzzles us, as there was no 
person of the name at New Paltz. Possibly the Bevier home- 
stead in this village had not yet been bought by Josiah Eltinge 
and belonged to Louis Bevier of Marbletown or Louis of 
Wawarsing. 

Nathaniel LeFevre lived on the Plains in the house of his 
father Jean. His mother Carolintje and his son Matthew, who 
afterward occupied the place, are assessed for small amounts. 

Noah Elting is the brother of Josiah. He lived on the 
estate where his father Roelif had lived in his old age and where 
Edmund Eltinge lived in our day. 

Dominie Moriches Goetchius was the minister of the churches 
at New Paltz and Shawangunk from 1760 to 1771, living at 
Shawangunk, where he died in 1771. 

Lewis DuBois is the Capt. Lewis J. DuBois of Revolutionary 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ loi 

times. His house, a frame building, is still standing, south of 
the Libertyville ford on the east side of the Wallkill and is 
now owned by his descendant, Henry L. DuBois. 

Abram and Andries LeFevre are brothers and the pioneers 
at Kettelboro. 

The assessor now turns east. The two Terwilligers, Joseph 
and Jonathan, lived we think on the Plattekill, east of Jenkin- 
town. 

Isaac and Joseph Freer owned the next farm on the north. 
This is the Freer patent and some part still owned in the 
family. 

Petrus Van Wagenen is the ancestor of all the Van Wage- 
nens in New Paltz. He lived in a stone house, still standing 
but not occupied, about a mile north of Put Corners. 

Abraham Donaldson probably lived at Elmore's Corners, as 
the Donaldson family located there at an early date. 

David and Christian Auchmoody are sons of Jeems Auch- 
moody, the first of tlje name at New Paltz. 

Most of the other names are for small amounts. Some of 
them we recognize as the ancestors of people in Highland and 
vicinity : Devoe, Mackey, Palmatier, Pressler, Wisemiller. 

Phelick Ransom lived at Highland and was afterward a 
captain in the Revolutionar}^ army. 

Jacob DuBois lived near Tuthill and had in 1757 pur- 
chased a tract lying on both sides of the Wallkill includ- 
ing the island at Tuthill. His son Isaac kept his home- 
stead and his son Jacob lived where Gardiner village now 
is. His old home was a short distance south of Kingston. 
He was probably the son of Isaac DuBois who was of Kings- 
ton and his wife Neiltje Rose, as they had a son Jacob, bap- 
tised in 1733. Isaac was the son of Jacob of Hurley, who 
was one of the seven sons of Louis the Patentee. 



102 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Joseph Coddington was the village schoolmaster in those 
days. 

Daniel Deyo lived a short distance north of what is now 
Ireland Corners and is the ancestor of that branch of the Deyo 
family. Daniel's father Abm. who resided in this village, still 
owned the farm in 1765. 



HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 103 



CHAPTER XI 

The Contract of 1744 

In this contract the owners of the patent, 34 in all, bind 
themselves each to the other for fifteen years to pay all assess- 
ments made by the twelve men for expenses in defending the 
claim of title of any owner. The document is in English and 
is here transcribed verbatim ct literatim. .-j 

Articles of agreement Indented had made concluded and 
agreed upon This Twenty Third Day of may In the Seven- 
teenth Year of The Reign of our Sovereign Lord George The 
Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and 
Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. annoq, Domini 1744 
Between The Persons Whose names are hereunder Written 
and Seals affixed and Who Executed The Same In Due form 
of Law. JVhereas Edmund Andross Esq. Seigneur of Sans- 
maraz Lieut, and Governour Generall under his Royal High- 
ness James Duke of York and Albany etc. of all his Terri- 
tories In America. By his Letters Patent bearing Date The 
Twenty Ninth Day of September In the Year of our Lord 
1677 ^^^^ Give Ratifye Confirm and Grant. Conformable To an 
Indian purchase From The Indian Propriators unto Lewis 
DuP>ois and Partners (That is to say) Christian Duyow Abra- 
ham Hasbroucq Andries Lefever, Jean Hasbroucq. Pierre Duyo, 
Laurens P>eveir. Anthony Crespell. Abraham Dubois, Hugo 



I04 111 STORY Of XEir PALTZ 

Frere, Isaac Dubois & Simon Lefever Their heirs and assigns 
All That Certain piece of Land Lyeing on The South Side of 
the Rondout Creek or Kill Bcgining From the High Hills 
Called Moggonck and Now known by The name of The 
High Point on The mountains commonly called the Paltz 
point From Thence Stretching South East Near The Great 
River To a Certain Point or hook Called The Juffrous Hoocke 
Lyeing In The Long Reach named by the Indians Magatramis 
Being a Little Distance To the Northward from the Place 
where the Late Dwelling House of Denis Raclje Deceased 
stood where it is Fixed by Virtue of a warrant By Cadwallader 
Colden Esq. To him Directed as Surveyor General For the 
Province of New York, Then North up along The River to an 
Island In a Crooked Elbow, In The begining of The Land 
Reach Called Little Esopus Island and by the Indians Raphoes 
Then \\'est on the High Hills To a place Called Waratahaes 
and Tawarataque and known by The name of Northwest bounds 
being at the North End of The mountain and Severall marks 
There .made, and soe along The Said High Hills South west 
To Moggonck or The High Point aforesaid To Hold unto Tne 
Said Lewis Dubois and Partners Their heirs and assigns For- 
ever, And Whereas We The Subscribers who Have hereunto 
Set our hands and affixed our Seals being owners and Inter- 
tested In The aforesaid Pattent or Tract of Land and In order 
To Keep and Prepare The Said Tract of Land unto us and our 
heirs and assigns Forever, From being Incroached upon by 
any Person or Persons Whatsoever we Shall Each of us and 
Every one of us, or our heirs Exs. admin, and assigns advance 
And Disburs So much money To make a Common Stock To 
Defend The before Recited Tract of Land, and Every one 
Shall but advance or Disburse So much money according to 
The Share proportion or Interest he or She hath in Said Tract 



HisroRv or xiiiv paltz 105 

of Land and so according To a Greater and Lesser Quantity 
So In proportion And Whereas \\'hcn Such money or moneys 
Shall be or must be Disbursed or advanced as often as It Shall 
Happen, To and for the Defence of before Recited Patent If 
it Should happen To be Disputed by any one of us or our heirs 
and Assigns Whether It is Requisite and necessary for any 
Such Sum or Sums of money To be Disbursed, It Shall (and 
It Is hereby agreed To and between The said Parties) That it 
must be Determined Then by the Twelve men or The Major 
Part of Them Who are annually Chosen by the Inhabitants of 
aforesaid Patent on the First Tuesday in April by Virtue of 
an Instrument In writing bearing Date The Twenty first Day 
of April annoq. Domini 1728 Reference being Thereunto had 
may more fully and at Large appear H And That the True 
Intent and meaning of the Present Articles be no ways Frus- 
trated, it is hereby Further Covenanted, Concluded, Granted 
and agreed upon by and between The Said Parties That 
Uliereas union is the Strength of all Copartnerships for their 
own Generall and Respective advantage and Safety they Doe 
oblidge themselves their heirs and assigns, to defend Joyntly 
the Whole tract above mentioned and to Stand In mutuall de- 
fence of Each other Lot or Lots farm and Farms against all 
Incroachment and Pretences of Right to the Same for Ever 
From any Person or Persons Whatsoever For Fifteen whole 
and Consecutive years From the Date of these Presents A)id 
Now For the True Performance of all and Singular the pres- 
ent articles and every one of them. The Parties to these pres- 
ents Doe hereby bind Each one to each other and their heirs 
Execs, and adms. Respectively In the Ponall Sum of Two Hmi- 
dred Pounds Currant Lawfull money of the i)rovince of New 
York Payable by the nonperformers To the others 1 1 /;/ Witness 
whereof the parties to these present articles have Respectively 



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HISTORY OF XEir J'ALTZ 



Set their hands and affixed their Seals the Day and year above 
written. 



his" 
Matthys x \'an i^eurcn 

mark 
I lend. Sleij^ht 
his 
(s. ) Isaae x Frere (s.) 

mark 
(s.) Jacob hasbrouck (s.) 
(s.) Isaac le Fevre (s.) 
(s.) Aenrci dice (s.) 

his 
(s. ) Hugo X Frere Jun (s.) 

mark 
(s.) Jacob Frere (s.) 
(s.) Jonas Frere (s.) 
(s.) Louis bevier (s.) 



(s.) Antho Slecht (s.) 

(s.) Jan Slecht (s.) 

(s.) Antoney Crespell ( s. ) 

(s.) Johannes Crespell (s.) 
Roeloff Eltinge (s.) 
Yean le Fevre (s.) 
Abraham doian (s.) 
Daniel Dubois (s.) 
Samuel Bevier (s.) 
Josia Eltinge (s.) 
daniel hasbr(X"cq (s.) 
johannis maty jun (s.) 

his 
John T Terpenning ( s.) 

mark 
Solomons hasbrouq (s.) 



Sealed and Delivered In jiresence of us 



Abraham \'an Der Merkan 
A Hasbrouck 36 



memorandum anthony Sleght 
Jan Sleght. aiuhony Crespell. Johannis Crespel, Mathias Van 
Keuren and Hendricus Sleght have signed Sealed and Deliverec 
this within In>truiuiiU In presence of us 

Jacob Hasbrouck Junr. 
\ llashrouck. 



HISTORY OP NFAV PALTZ 107 

Civil Government 

In its civil government New Paltz at an early jjericjcl in- 
cluded not only the entire southeastern portion of Ulster county 
as it is at present, but a considerable portion of Orange county 
likewise. From page 23 of Ruttenber's History of Orange 
county we quote : "Immediately north of Murderer's Creek 
there was no civil organization until the advent of the Pala- 
tines in 1709, when the precinct of the Highlands was erected 
and attached to Xew Paltz. The boundaries of the precinct 
are not stated but the order is understood to have applied 
more especially to the territory extending from New Paltz to 
Murderer's Creek, in which district the Palatines of Quassaick 
were then the j)rincipal settlers. At the same time or soon 
after the constitution of the precinct of the Highlands, and 
evidently by order of the court the precincts of Maghagh- 
branch and Shaw^angunk were constituted, the latter attached 
to New Paltz. As in the case of the precinct of the High 
lands no boundaries are given, but from deeds, tax rolls and 
other papers of record it is clear that the present towns of 
Montgomery, Crawford and Wallkill were embraced in the 
limits of the precinct. Under this limited organization the 
territory which these precincts covered remained until 1743, 
when by act of Dec. 17 three full j^recincts, having all the 
officers of towns and exercising all their duties were estab- 
lished by act of the .\ssembly." 

Neigh liKKiKKiDs A.\.\F.xi:n to Xf.w Paltz 

The ])recinct of the I liglilands was bounded on the west 
by the jirecincts of Wallkill. ."^hawangunk and the "neighbor- 
homls annexed to \\\\ I'alt/." These neighborhoods were 
the Louis DuBois jjatent. the Cuilford patent, the Tbotnas 



io8 HISTORy OF NEIV PALTZ 

Garland patent at Kettelborough and Ireland Corners and the 
Hugo Freer patent of 1200 acres on a portion of which Zach. 
Freer lived. The territory of these "neighborhoods annexed 
to New Paltz" is thus described: "Guilford and several other 
patents, from the south bounds of New Paltz to the north 
bounds of Shawangimk precinct and from the foot of the 
high mountains eastward to the east line of the patent granted 
to Thomas Garland and by the south and east by the land 
granted to Hugh Freer and others and to the eastward by 
an east line from the said Hugh Freer's bounds to the bounds 
of town of New Paltz." 

P.WMENTS OF ReXT AND T.AXES 

During all the Colonial period the payment of rent con- 
tinued. The following in the Dutch language, among the 
papers in the Patentees' trunk, is a sample of the receipts given: 

Received of the inhabitants of the New Paltz one year's quit 
rent being thirty-five bushels of good winter wheat delivered 
to me in Kingston 1710 November 18. J. hardenbergh. 

It is stated that one year the Freers paid the entire quit 
rent due from the New Paltz people and in return were given 
a tract of 200 acres at Mud Hook. 

Besides the quit rent, which was \)^\<\ in wheat, taxes for 
special purposes were levied as shown by the following samples 
of tax warrant and receipt : 

Tax Receipt 

New York 26 May 1716. 

Then Received of Mr. Daniel Duboy & Hugh Frera Jun. 
Collectors of New Paltz Ulster Countv the Sumc of Eleven 



HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 109 

Pounds Fifteen Shillings & 3d Tax & for ye Treasurers Salary 
Six Shill. Being on ye fifth & Sixth Payment wch. will be 
payable ye Last Day of this Instant May and ye Last Day 
of Novem. Next Ensuing on ye £10000 Tax I say Rec by n-.e. 

A. D. Peyster. 
Reeded in the book of Receipts, 
No. A Folio 21. 

Wm. Nottingham, Clk. 

The tax warrant is directed to the assessors of New Paltz 
dated 1746, and is signed by Jan Eltinge, Jean (or Johannes) 
Hardenberg, Jr., Johannes De Witt, Abraham Hardenberg, 
Jacobus Bruyn, Charles Clinton and Cadwalder Colden, Jr., 
supervisors of the several towns manors and precincts : 

"Pursuant of an act of General Assembly of the Province 
of New York, made in the present Nineteenth year of his 
majestic Reign, Entitled an act for raising a supply of the 
sum of thirteen thousand pounds by a tax on Estates Real and 
Personal for the more effectual fortifying this Colony, etc." 



no HISTORY OF X E\V PALTZ 



CHAPTER XII 
A Short Historical Memorandum 

The first attempt at writing^ anytliing of a historical nature 
conceniinj;' Xew Pahz that \vc have seen is contained in the 
following paper, written by grandfather Peter LeFever and 
dated 1830. 

One leaf of the original seems to be torn off and the memo- 
randum begins abruptly as follows : 

"It appears they settled in what is now called the old village 
and it is said they all laboured together and cleared their lands 
at first and afterwards divided the cleared lands by parole, 
without deed. 

On the 25th day of August. 1703. some of the original pro- 
prietors were then dead : the survivors met together and con- 
veyed by their deed, bearing the above date, to each Patentee 
then living his proportion of the cleared land in their possession 
as the same had been divided by parole, and also his undivided 
twelfth part of the whole ])atent : and also conveyed to the 
legal representatives of the original patentees who were then 
dead, the full share of their ancestors. 

Andries Lefever having died without lawful issue, Simon 
Lefever being dead, they conveyed to Andries Lefever, Isaac 
Lefever, John Lefever and Mary Lefever, the three sons and 
daughter of Simon Lefever, all the lots and parcels belonging 
to them from their father Simon Lefever and from their uncle 
Andries Lefever; and also one fifth part of their grandfather's 
land (Christcyan Dcyou. usually called Grand pcrc^ as the 



HISTORY OF Xliir PALTZ m 

same had been laid out and divided by parole and then in tlieir 
possession ; together with two twelfth parts and one fifth of a 
twelfth part of the whole patent of all the lands not yet laid 
out and divided. 

Simon Lefevcr had been married to Elizabeth Deyou, daugh- 
ter of the said Christeyan Deyou, called Grandpcrc in the 
French language, which means grand-father, who had devised 
to his son Peter and his four daughters each one fifth part of 
his land. His son Peter was also a patentee. 

The widow of Simon Lefever afterwards married ]\Ioses 
Cantine, who was also a French refugee, by whom she had one 
son, viz. Peter Cantine, Esq., to whom the Patentees gave no 
share of the land of his mother, who thought he ought to have 
shared in his mother's land. (Peter Cantine was my mother's 
father.) 

The Patentees afterwards entered into an article in writing 
to .elect at their annual town meeting twelve men to represent 
the twelve Patentees — one from the descendants of each Paten- 
tee, who. to entitle them to that office must be a descendant of 
such Patentee he represented and a freeholder by heirship .in 
such Patentee's share. 

These "Twelve I\Ien," so called, had their by-laws, kept a 
book and record of their proceedings, made divisions of the 
whole patent (except some land on the north side of the patent 
and some other small lots) and entered their proceedings 
in a book. 

These "Twelve Men" were also empowered by another bond, 
or instrument in writing to defend the boundaries of the j^atent 
and to raise money for that ])urpose from the re])resentatives 
of the Patentees, according to their several rights. 

Shortly after the Revolutionary war it was discovered that 
the divisions made bv the "Twelve Men" were not lawful, and 



112 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

void. They then petitioned the Legislature of the State of 
New York to confirm such division (which was done by an act 
of the Legislature) and directed their book, wherein they had 
recorded their division, to be deposited in the ofiice of the 
county of Ulster, where it now remains, and a certified copy 
of the act confirming said division is now in the possession of 
my son, Daniel. 

The "Twelve Men" continued to be elected until about the 
year 1820. Their coft'er. and copy of the book wherein the 
records of the division is entered, and patent, and sundry rec- 
ords and other patents was left in the care of Ezekiel Eltinge." 

^Latters Submitted to \'oters 

Rev. Ame \'ennema has compiled from papers in the Paten- 
tees' trunk the following list of matters submitted to voters 
during the period of ten years from 1756 to 1766, showing how 
close was the union of church and State at New Paltz in those 
colonial days : 

In 1756 3 '"chimmily \'ewers" were elected, and the "fine 
on ye chimmilis" fixed at 3d. 

In 1757 Whether the money received for the coUectorship 
should be applied "on the Highway" or "to the use of the 
church." The latter was preferred, the amount was 44s., 6d. 

In 1758 ^^'hether the money rec'd for the ofiice of Collector 
should be applied "to the benefit of the church of the New 
Paltz," or "on the Highway." or "given to the clerk of the 
New Paltz church for the time being" or "half to the church 
and half to the clerk." 

The result was in favor of the first proposition. Amount 46s. 

In 1759 Whether the money received for the coUectorship 
shall be given to the clerk of the church, to the poor, or used 



HISTORY OF XEIV PALTZ 113 

for the purchase of a "pall." The result is thus recorded, "By 
Plurality of \'oices it is carried, That the money given for the 
Collectorship shall be Applyed for buying a Pall for the Pre- 
cinct of the New Paltz, And there is Bid for the Collectorship 
the sum of ^y shillings. And Tis Agreed that the Deacons of 
the New Paltz church shall be Managers for Procuring said 
Pall as aforesaid, who are to buy said Pall as soon as said 
money shall come in." 

In 1760 Whether the money of the Collectorship should be 
applied in Part "to a Pall and the Remainder for a Silver 
Beaker" (chalice) or, in part to a "Pall and the Remainder to 
a Bare to Cary the Corps of the Dad to the Grave." 

The result of the election was that it "be applyd to Bie a Pall 
and the over Plush to Bie a Silver Beaker to the use and Benefit 
of the New Paltz Preseinct; and there is Bid for the Collector 
Ship the Sum of 68s. by Jonathan Terwilliger, and paid.'* 

1 761 It was decided by vote that the money of the Col- 
lectorship be used to purchase "a Silver Cup for the use of the 
Refomicd Dutch Church at the New Paltz" — 

That Sheep may not have free Running but must be kept. 
The fine for pounding sheep to be not 4d but 3d. 

1762 Noe Eltinge was elected for a "Commissioner to 
Lay out Highway." 

\'alciitine Perkins for "j)ownder for ye River, and Josaphat 
Hasbrouck for pownder for ye Paltz." 

1763 The money for the Collectorship was "voted to be 
Applyed to pay the Assessors for their Trouble for the En- 
suing Year." 

In 1764 It was submitted to the voters "Whether there shall 
be Five overseers of the Roads, or two." 

Whether a Pound shall be made "adjoining the South East 
side of the Land of Abraham Bevier, at the Orchard." 



114 HISTORY Of AEir PALIZ 

The money of the Collectorship shall go to the Assessors. 

1765 Whether Pound Masters shall be elected or "every 
man be his own Pounder." 

It was decided by vote : "That the Poundage of Horses and 
Horned Cattle shall be 2s. a head." 

That the fences be "4 foot 6 inches High, post and Rales 
Fence, to have 4 Rales." 

1766 Of the 25s. rec'd. for the Collectorship it was voted 
that 3s. be paid to the Constables the residue to the Assessors. 



HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ iis 



CHAPTER XIII 

The First ^Manufacturing Industry in Southern Ulster 

The brook which now runs so quietly through the northern 
suburbs of our village is still called the Mill brook, but for 
many years no mill has marked its course to the Wallkill. 
However this brook was in by gone days the propelling power 
of no less than three mills located at different points and built 
at different times in the history of New Paltz. About a mile 
north east of the village are the remains of an old saw mill 
on this brook. The stone dam and a portion of the timbers 
are still to be seen. The situation is in a romantic glen and 
the place is well worth a visit. This mill was used in sawing 
logs as late as 1855. 

Half a mile further down the brook, near the present resi- 
dence of Mr. Wm. E. DuBois, are the remains of another dam. 
Here there was a grist mill erected at an early date which con- 
tinued in use mitil about 1820. Here Isaac DuBois, grand- 
father of the late John A\'. DuBois. carried on the milling 
business shortly after the Revolutionary war, and here the late 
Nathaniel DuBois of Shivertown carried on the business about 
1820. At about that date the mill ceased running and New 
Paltz people after that time took their grain to the mill at 
Libertyville or the mill just erected at Dashville. 

Still further down this brook, almost directly north of the 
residence of John Wynkoop, on Mulberry street, may be found 
the grass grown remains of a much older mill dam, which 
has recently been rebuilt and a large pond formed and an ice 
house built. Here in the earlv davs of the settlement the 



Ii6 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

Huguenot pioneers of New Paltz took their grain to be manu- 
factured into flour. On this spot Daniel Hasbrouck, son of 
Abraliani Hasbrouck, the Patentee, had a mill as early as 1730. 
In a document of that date, bearing the signature of Hugo 
Freer, Sen., son of Hugo the Patentee, reference is made to 
the lane on the north bounds of the old village, "leading to the 
mill of Daniel Hasbrouck." This property remained in the 
possession of Daniel Hasbrouck's descendants until quite a 
recent date. Tradition says that this mill was for the grind- 
ing of grain, but there may have been a saw mill connected 
with it. The brook does not give abundant water power, but 
probably it furnished all that was needed for the infant settle- 
ment. This ancient mill may have been erected quite a num- 
ber of years previous to 1730, but wc have no evidence on 
that point. First in the history of New Paltz, after the settle- 
ment of 1677, came the organization of the church in 1683 
and the erection of the church building. Next in importance 
was the education of the children, and in 1689 and perhaps at 
an earlier date there was a schoolmaster at New Paltz. The 
next enterprise to claim attention would naturally be a mill, 
and we have documentary evidence, amply confirmed by the 
still remaining earthwork of the dam and by tradition among 
the descendants of Daniel Hasbrouck, that this was the spot 
to which in ancient times the New Paltz people brought their 
wheat to be manufactured into flour. 

It was no doubt the first manufacturing industry established 
in Southern Ulster. 

Soldiers in* the Colon i.\l Period 

The report of State Historian Hugh Hastings comprising 
volume I, of . the Colonial series contains a complete list of all 
soldiers in the Colonial i)eriod, subsequent to 1700. 



// / .V T O RV O F N E W PALTZ 117 

The first New Paltz name in point of date is that of Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck who received his commission as Heutenant of 
a company of foot for New Paltz and Kingston August 30, 
1685. In 1689 he was appointed as "captain of foot at Ye 
Palz, Ulster county." 

I'nder the date of 1700 in a foot company ai)pear the names 
of the following officers : Abm. Hasbrouck, captain ; Moses 
Quantin, lieut. ; Lewis Bevier, ensign. 

In the list of volunteers to march to the invasion of Canada 
in 1711 in Captain Wessel Tenbrook's company appear the 
names of Isaacq Hasbrouck and Jean Lefeber. 

In 1 71 5 in the list of the troop under the command of Capt. 
John Rutzen appear the following : Anthony Crispell, Lowis 
Dubois, Jun., corporal Louis DuBois, Solomon Hasbrouck, 
Daniel Hasbrouck. Daniel Dubooy, Philip DuBois, Jacob Has- 
brouck. 

At the same date in the same regiment in Capt. Vernooy's 
company (Wawarsing and Rochester) appear the following 
names : Lieut. David Dubois, Samuel Bevier, Abraham Bevier, 
Jan Bevier. 

At the same date in the same regiment in Capt. Johannes 
Schepmoes' company for the town of Hurley appear the fol- 
lowing : Lieut. Jacob Dubois, Jan Crispell. 

At the same date in tiie same regiment in Capt. Nicholas 
Hoffman's company for Kingston we find the following : 
Roeloff Elting, William Elting, Peter Cantyn, Louis DuBois, 
Jun.. Louis Matthyse DuBois, Jan Freer, Johannes Crispel. 

In a Dutchess county company under date of 17 15 appears 
the name of Peiter DuBoy. 

The next year, 1716. in Capt. Hoflfman's company a large 
number of New Paltz names appear as follows : Sergeant 
alircam deyou, Lieut. Andries Lowerre, insign Lewis Lowies 



Ii8 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

Jun. aberam de boys, aberam ferer, yakop ferer, hendrick 
deyoo, elyas yu, kriteyon de you, Ysack leferer, piter daow, 
Hyge Abarani fere, Ysack fere, Synion ferer, Benjamin du 
boois, benjamin hasberck. yoel debois, Van lefever. 

The above can quite readily be recognized as the names of 
the sons of the Patentees by combining the Christian name with 
the family name in each case. But the spelling is unusually bad. 

In 1 71 7 in a list of militia officers for Ulster county the 
names of the officers for New Paltz and Shawangunk are as 
follows : Capt. Zach. Hoffman, Lieut. Andries Fever, ensign, 
Louis Bevier, Jun. The name of Jacob Dubois appears in a 
list of the Hurley company, in 171 7. 

In a list of eight companies of an Orange county regiment 
of foot militia in 1738 Nathaniel Dubois' name appears as 
captain of the fifth company. 

In a list of officers and soldiers in Ulster County militia In 
1738 under Capt. Johannes Ten Broock appear the following 
New Paltz names : corporal Solomon Haesbrock, Jacob Haes- 
brock, Samuel Bovie, Jan Ffreere, Daniel Dubois, Daniel Haes- 
brock, Johannes DuBois. 

The following of New Paltz ancestry appear in 1738 as foot 
soldiers of the corporation of Kingston : corporal Nathan Du- 
bois, Jacobus Dubois. Jr.. Solomon Freer, Johannes Dubois, 
Hiskiah Dubois, Gerrett Freer, Jacobus De loo, Isaac Dubois. 

In the same date, 1738. Lewis Bevier's name appears in the 
Marbletown company of militia. 

At the same date in the Rochester company appear the names 
of Lieut. Phili]) DuRois and Josaphat Dubois, Louis Bovier, 
Jr., Cornelius Bovier, Samuel Bovier, Jr., and Jacob Bovier. 

At the same date (1738) in the list of militia of the foot 
company of New Paltz (which then stretched down into 
Orange county) under Capt. Zacharias Hoffman, are the fol- 



HISrOKV OF NEW PALTZ 119 

lowing : Sergt. John l-Vcer, corporals, Christian Deyo, Hen- 
drick Deyo, Isaac Lefever ; privates, Isaac freer, Jan Une, 
Jonas freer, James Agniodi, Simon Lefever, Josiah Elting, 
Abra. Dujo, CorneUus Dubois, Jonathan Dubois, Hendr Dubois, 
Moses Dujo, Isaac Haasbrouck, Jacob Haasbrouck, Jun., 
Benja Haasbrouck, Jun., Abra. Bovier, Mathues Bovier, 
Jacobus Bovier, Isaac Bovier, Abra Lefever, Nathael Lefever, 
Benja Haasbrouck, Symon Dubois, Isaac Lefever, Junr., Peter 
Dejo, Huge Freer, Junr., Lewis Sa. Bovier. 

In 1758 in the roll of Stephen Nottingham's company ap- 
pear the following: Jacob S. Freer, Jacob Freer, Wilhelmus 
Crispel. 

Coats of Arms in Huguenot Families at New Paltz 

It is highly probable that all of the Huguenot settlers at 
New Paltz had coats of arms. The count de Vennont, who 
is a recognized authority on this subject, says that previous 
to 1789 not only the nobility in France but most families of 
the "bourgeois" had regularly registered coats of arms record- 
ing some distinguished action on the part of the bearer or his 
ancestors. 

Most descendants of the early settlers of New Paltz have 
taken little interest in the matter of coats of arms and we have 
not considered it in our province in writing a history of New 
Paltz from 1678 to 1820 to enter into the subject at any length, 
because during that period the matter of coats of arms is not 
alluded to in any records that we have seen or in any tradition 
that we have heard. 

Of late years some interest has been shown in the subject. 

Many years ago Gen. Geo. H. Sharpe found at Brussels a 
coat of arms of the Hasbrouck family, a copy of which he 



I20 HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 

brouglit with liini to his home in Kingston. In the Memorial 
House at New Paltz, among the other rehcs is a coat of arms 
of the Bevier family. In the LeFevre family there are, we 
are told, three coats of arms, one of wliicli belonged to the 
LeFevres of Paris and the others to certain families of the 
name in other parts of France. The name Dcyo is thought 
by one authority to be the same as de Joux, which name wrs 
borne by a princely family, whose castle and home was in 
Franche Comte. This is of course mere surmise. 

The coat of arms of the DuBois family, as certified by the 
count de \'ermont, is thus described : 

Argent, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules. 
Crest, between two tree stumps : J 'ert, the lion of the shield. 
Motto — Tieiis ta foy — (Hold to thy faith). 

On page 39 of the DuBois Reunion book, in the paper read 
at the Reunion, written by Dr. Henry A. DuBois of Xew 
Haven, Conn., appears a cut of what is denominated "Original 
DuBois Arms" : Or. an eagle displayed sable, peaked and 
clawed gules. 

Another coat of anus which has a curious history is that 
which has come down in the family of Ahrani DuBois. who 
moved from New Paltz to New Jersey and was the son of 
Abraham the Patentee and grandson of Louis the Patentee. 
This coat of arms was found pasted in an old book, published 
in 1707, which had come down from father to son in this 
branch of the DuBois family. A greyhound is a prominent 
figure in the coat of arms. The motto is "Honestas est optima 
polita." The name "Duboys" appears on the coat of arms. 

We note, lastly, the coat of arms on the old silver snufF box, 
which has come down in the family of Solomon DuBois. son 
of Louis DuBois the Patentee. This box is in itself a very 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 121 

valuable relic. It hears on one side the names of different 
owners in tlie Duliois family and dates, the most ancient being 
1707. On the other side is a coat of arms. Mr. Patterson 
DuBois in the DuBois Reunion book says ''While the one side 
of the box may have meant 'nobility' to our ancestor the 
simple blazon of a name and date (1707) on the other side is 
our title to the truer nobility of the soul, which our Huguenot 
fathers have bequeathed us in the annals of an heroic devotion 
to their faith." Mr. William E. DuBois of New Paltz is now 
the owner of the box and has placed it with the other relics in 
the Memorial House. 

There will probably always be difference of opinion among 
the descendants of Louis DuBois the Patentee as to which of 
the four coats of arms above noted is that of their ancestor. 
The predilections of the writer would naturally be in favor of 
that which has come down in the family of his grandmother 
and the other descendants of Louis' son Solomon. 



122 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 



CHAPTER XIV 

Tories in the Revolution 

Among the papers of Gen. George Clinton, published by the 
State in book form, in 1899, appears an account of the pro- 
ceedings of a general court martial, held at Fort Montgomery, 
April 30. 1777, and continued several days for the trial of a 
number of tories who had been captured while on their way 
to join the British army. 

At this court martial Col. Lewis DuBois was president and 
15 captains and 2 lieutenants were members, among the number 
Capts. Hasbrouck, Bevier and Hardenbergh. 

It appears from the proceedings of the court martial that a 
certain Lieut. Jacobus Rose by the offer of a bounty and the 
assurance that King George would soon win, got together a 
body of 36 men in the neighborhood of Shokan and Shandaken. 

They started to join the British army, traveling by night and 
taking with them their guns and provisions for 4 to 5 days. 
They crossed the Esopus and Rondout creeks and the Sha- 
wangunk mountains. They came into the precinct of New 
Paltz at what is now Mountain Rest and passed down the 
mountain to the ford at Cornelius DuBois' place, now Capt. 
W. H. D. Blake's. One Woutcr Slouter was their guide to 
the ford. 

While crossing the Shawangunk mountain tliey had been 
told that scouting parties were out to apprehend them. This 
was true, for about a dozen or fifteen of the neighbors in New 
Paltz had got together, placing sentries at the different roads 
where they crossed the Wallkill — at Peter Deyo's (Tuthill) 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 123 

at Isaac Low's ( Liberty ville) and at Cornelius DuBois', where 
Capt. W. H. D. Blake now resides. At the last named place 
Tunis Van Vliet and Jacob Freer were stationed, sitting under 
an apple tree, guarding the road leading to the ford. 

Rose and his party came upon them suddenly in the night 
and took them prisoners, then crossed the Wallkill in two 
canoes, repeated trips being necessary for the purpose. On the 
east side of the Wallkill the tories were challenged by Lieut. 
Terwilligar, who was at once fired upon by one of Rose's fol- 
lowers and wounded in the arm. Terwilligar escaped and so 
did Tunis \'an \'liet, who had been taken prisoner on the west 
side of the stream. Both proceeded to Noah Elting's, and 
procured horses and a man in order that the news might be 
sent post haste to Newburgh and our army warned of the ap- 
proach of the tory band. It is a proof of the strict discipline 
in our army that Tunis A'an X'liet was afterwards arrested and 
sent to Fort Montgomery for not having more promptly raised 
the alarm and aroused the rest of the guard, only 150 yards 
away, this delay on his part, after his escape, giving the tories 
time to get their whole band across the Wallkill in safety. 

Rose and his party traveled on, reaching Alex. Campbell's 
that night and staying there the next day. The next evening 
they went to the barn of Arthur McKinney and staid there the 
next day and night. Here, near Little Britain, they learned 
that it was im])ossible to get through our lines. Shortly after- 
wards they were attacked by 50 of our militia, who had been 
sent out to meet them. Several of the tories were killed, a 
large proportion were taken prisoners and a few escaped for 
the time being. 

The court martial, after due consideration sentenced 16 of 
the tory band, including those who had given them aid and 
comfort on the route, to be hanged. Seven of the 16 were 



124 HISTORY OF XEir PALIZ 

recommended for mercy. Subsequently 14 others of the band 
received the same sentence, a few of the number being recom- 
mended for mercy. The charge against a portion of the num- 
ber was "levying war against the United States of America" 
and with those who had helped them along the route "giving 
aid and comfort to the enemies of the State of New York." 

This sentence was subject to the approval of the Conven- 
tion, which met at Kingston May 3d. Gen. Clinton, in a letter 
to the President of the Convention says. "The inhabitants are 
so much irritated by the conduct of the prisoners in marching 
armed in a body to join the enemy that I fear they will soon 
take the law in their own hands against them." He urges 
that a severe example should be made of those tories. With 
a few exceptions the Convention approved the action of the 
court martial and no doubt it was promptly carried into effect 
so far as Rose and one at least of his companions were 
concerned. 

On May 5th Capt. John A. Hardenbergh. who was of Guil- 
ford, writes from New Paltz to Gen. Clinton that in pursu- 
ance of h^ orders he arrived at home on Saturday evening, 
got all the men together he could and scoured the mountain in 
search of those of Rose's party who had escaped. They 
found two men. hidden under a great nx'k. who confessed 
having belonged to his band. The next day he went to another 
mountain where he found the party of Capt. P)roadhead who 
had also captured three of the band. All the prisoners were 
sent under guard to Fort Montgomery. 

Old Frami-: Housks 

Until the time of the Revolution there were few frame 
houses built in this part of the country and stone houses con- 
tinued to be erected until about tlie beginning of the last cen- 



HISTORY OF XEJV PALTZ 125 

uirv. The oldest frame house in this vicinity we believe is 
that now owned by Henry L. DuBois, near Liberty ville. This 
house in Revolutionary times was owned and occupied by 
Capt. Louis J. DuBois, son of Jonathan and grandson of Louis 
Jr. From Capt. Louis J. it passed to his son Louis and from 
him to his son John L. of whom it was purchased by the pres- 
ent owner. Henry L. DuBois, w'ho is also one of the very large 
number of descendants of Capt. Louis J. DuBois. The old 
house has been re-sided and repainted since it was built but the 
great beams are as of old. 

Perhaps the oldest frame house in this village is the one on 
Huguenot street, directly south of the church yard. This w-as 
occupied about 1800 by Lucas Van Wagenen. Another old 
frame house is the one on the farm now owned by Richard 
S. Deyo. about a mile north of this village, w'hich was owned 
by Peter W. A. Freer. On this farm his father Elias and his 
grandfather Jonas lived, but the latter resided in the stone house 
on the east end of the farm. 

A Famous Old Oak 

The old oak tree at the residence of Mr. A. ^L Lowe on the 
Paltz Plains is the largest and no doubt the oldest tree in this 
part of the county. Mr. Edmund Eltinge tells us that in the 
old days when regimental training was held on the Plains 
there w^ere other old oaks a little farther to the west on the 
brow of the hill. Under these the sutlers' booths were pitched 
on training days. One of these old oaks was sawed down 
many years ago. Mr. Eltinge counted the rings in the tree 
and found there were 478, showing that the tree had attained 
that great age. The one still standing is probably full 500 
vears old. 



126 



HISTORY 01' XEir PALTZ 




TIIK K.\MI>r> 111 II II \K UN THE ri.AINS 



HISTORY OF XEIV PALTZ 127 

How They Crossed the Wallkill 

An ancient document, recently come to light, is of interest 
as showing how our great-grandfathers crossed the Wallkill, 
before any bridge had been built at this village. The names 
which are subscribed to the document we recognize as the 
great-grandfathers of the New Paltz people of the present day. 
The document is as follows : 

We the Subscribers of these Presents, Do Promise to pay 
to Roelif J. Eltinge of the Precinct of the New Paltz in the 
County of Ulster and State of New York, the Respective 
Sums of money assigned and affixed to our respective names. 
For the use herein after mentioned, viz. to Build a Skow or 
fiat to ferry across the Wall kill at the town of the New Pal'tz, 
where the oald Skow was kept Before, and to be made of good 
Yallow Pitchpine Wood, Except the Ribs, to be of good White- 
oak wood 4 by five to lay 9 inches apart, and the Length of 
Said Skow to be 28 feet, and the Breadth 113^ feet (out Side 
work) the Botom 3 inches thick, and the Sides 4 inches thick, 
and 15 inches Broad in the midel, and to rise 4 inches at 
each end from the main Botom and allso to Provide a good 
Rope to hall the Said Skow across by, and to fix everything 
belonging to Said Skow in good order and then to Set the 
Said Skow With the appurtenances up at pulilick vendue to 
the highest Bidder living in the town and the highest Bidder 
is to be the Ferry man for one year then Next ensuing, and to 
have the Care thereof and to keep it in order, and to take ferry- 
age money of all those that have no Right in Said Skow, and 
those that have not Paid for the Liberty of using it. Except 
those that are Comeing to. and going from Devine Service in 
the town of the New Paltz, and Every Subscriber is to have 
free Liberty to ferry any of his friends or Relation across 



128 



HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 



With Said Skow Provided he Does not take ferryage money 
for it, and the money arising by the Sail of the Said Skow or 
ferry and for the Sail of the Liberty of useing it, is to be 
applied annually to the Repair of Said Skow and Rope and if 
not Wanted for that purpose, to be returned to the Subscribers 
in Proportion to their Subscription, and the Said ferry man 
is to Provide a good Lock that Whensoever the kill Rises So 
high, that the Said Skow cannot be used with the Rope he 
may Lock the Said Skow (in the night) and every Subscriber, 
and those that have Liberty to use it. Will be obliged to fetch 
the kce at his house and Return it there again, as soon as 
possible. In Witness Whereof each of us have hereunto Set 
our hand this 20th day of Jany 1791. 



£ s d 

losiah Hasbrouck & ) 

'.200 
Jacob Hasbrouck. Jr ) 

Roelof Josias Eltinge. 200 

Andrias Lefever, Jun. i 100 

George Wertz 2 00 

Philip Doyo i 00 

Abraham Doyo i 00 

Simeon Low o 10 o 

Daniel Dubis Tunr & ) 

1200 
Joseph Dubois .... ) 

Jesais Ilasbroucck. 080 

Received of Andries 

Lefever for 

Christophol Doyo.... 040 

Mathusalcm Dubois.. 040 

Joseph Hasbrouck. . . . o 40 

Sannicl Rcvier 032 



£ s d 
Abraham Eltinge . . . . o 40 
Cornelius Dubois Junr 040 

Tsaac Dubois o 40 

Mathew Bevier o 40 

Christiaen Doyou.... 030 
David Hasbrouck. . . . o 40 

1793 
Rcc. of Ezekiel Eltinge 
for being a ferry 

man o 140 

Ezechol Eltinge o 60 

Richard mckinly o 20 

Tsaac P.odcyn ( mend- 
ing chain) o 30 

Simon Rosa o 30 

Richard mckinlv o 18 6 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



129 



£ s d 

1795 
Ezcchiel Eltinge chain 

and cash o 11 7 

Cash Joseph Has- 

brouck I 

Cash from John Wil- 

ketd o 

1797 
Collected by Lucas 
\' an w a gen en for 
f err}- man O 14 O 



o o 



2 o 



Total 19 10 3 

Dr. 

1 791 

Paid to Daniel Dubois, o 11 8 

" Wm. Coutant.ii 10 o 

myself for go- 

i n g to and 

crossing to bild 

the Skow o 12 o 

Simon Rose. . . o 16 



£ s d 
1794 

" for a Rope.. ..6177 
for mending 

chain o 06 

Peter Lefever, 
Jack for tak- 
ing the Scow 
up o 30 



Total 19 19 3 

1800. 
Paid to Ez. Eltinge.. i 39 
" his bond in full 
for the rent of 
the Scow for the 

year 1797 o 17 o 

Paid to Ezekiel El- 
tinge I 30 

" to Luke Van- 

Wagenen o 10 

Scow yet indebted.. . o 10 o 
Paid to Ezekel El- 
tinge o 10 o 



The Sfringtown Merch.\nt of 1800 

The following story dates back to about 1800. when Col. 
Josiah Hasbrouck kept a store in what is now the Memorial 
Hou.se and Ezekiel Elting and his brother-in-law Philip Kiting 
kept a store in the stone house with a brick front, now the 
property of Jesse ^L Elting. adjoining his residence. A negro 
living at Springtown, had a little store, his goods being kept 



130 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

altogether in a large chest. He sold molasses by the pint and 
whatever other articles he had for sale in like proportion. In 
those days flax seed was one of the principal articles sold by 
farmers, and purchased by the village merchants. One day 
our Springtown merchant came to the village and having 
quite a high idea of his importance as a business man dropped 
in at Col. Hasbrouck's store, saying that as spring was ap- 
proaching he thought he would come to New Paltz so that 
he and Col. Hasbrouck and the proprietors of the Elting 
store might "put their heads together" and dictate what price 
they would pay the farmers for their flax seed that spring. 
But Col. Hasbrouck did not take kindly to the idea of putting 
their heads together in this matter and the Springtown mer- 
chant left his store in a hurry. This story shows that although 
the slaves were not set free until long afterwards, a negro 
kept a store at Springtown, even if it was a small one ; it 
shows, moreover, that the organization of a trust in those old 
days was attended with difficulties. 

Washington Irving and Martin A^xn Buren 

Hon. Andrew E. Elmore, of Fort Howard, Wis., relates 
the following anecdote concerning two of the Empire State's 
most prominent citizens of former days, showing that even 
in the early part of the last century the New Paltz records 
were known to be of interest : 

In 1 82 1, when Mr. Elmore was a lad about seven years 
of age and his father Job Elmore kept a store at what is 
now Highland. Washington Irving and Martin \'anBuren. 
afterwards President of the United States, came one day in 
a carriage from Po'keepsie to examine the old records in New 
Paltz. The New Paltz turnpike was not yet constructed 
and the old road was not in first-class condition. One of the 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 131 

horses lost a shoe and the carriage was stopped at a black- 
smith shop across the street from his father's store to have 
a new shoe put on. 'Jlie wliip had also lost its cracker, 
and Mr. VanBuren came over to the store and got a skein 
of silk and tried to make a new cracker while the blacksmith 
was shoeing the horse. He did not succeed in making the 
cracker, but got the silk in a snarl. A bystander who knew 
him addressed him by name, and told him he had the silk 
in a tangle similar to that in which he would sometimes 
get the minds of people in arguing a case in court. ]\Ir. 
VanBuren was surprised at being recognized and addressed 
by name, but procured another skein of silk of which the 
bystander made him a cracker for his whip. 

Regimental Trainings 

The greatest days of the year at New Paltz in the first 
half of the last century were the training days. The regi- 
mental district included the old town of New Paltz — that is, 
New Paltz as it was, before being dismembered, including 
all of Lloyd, about half of the present towns of Esopus and 
Gardiner, and one-third of Rosendale. Plattekill was also 
included in the regimental district. Regimental training at 
New Paltz ceased about 1848. Perry Deyo, of Highland, 
was the last Colonel. His predecessor was Josiah P. Le- 
Fevre of this town, and Solomon Elting, father of A. V. 
N. Elting. was his predecessor. The training ground for a 
long time was on the Paltz Plains. The regiment consisted 
of eight companies of infantry, one of light infantry, and 
one of artillery. The men had to bear their own expenses 
and provide their own Hint lock muskets. There was one 
company from Kettleborough. one from Springtown. one 
from Highland, one from Nescatook (now Liberty ville). 



132 in STORY Of A/://' I'ALTZ 

The last named company was the best. The Highland 
people did not usually turn out very well. 

The Brigadier General and staff would inspect the regi- 
ment and were usually entertained at the residence of Dirck 
Wynkoop, grand-father of Edmund Eltinge. Mr. W'ynkoop 
was famous for his hospitality and likewise for his fine 
horses. Under the old oak tree still standing at Mr. Low's, 
at the north end of the Plains, a temporary structure would 
be set up where refreshments and whiskey were sold. 

After the Plains were fenced in, about 1840, training was 
held either at Abni. M. Hasbrouck's, north of the village, or 
on the other side of the W'allkill. When Perry Deyo was 
Colonel, just before the training days were finally discon- 
tinued, he ordered the destruction of a quantity of whiskey, 
which had been brought on the ground by a huckster. Mr. 
Deyo was sued by the huckster, but was sustained by the 
court, as he had no permission or legal right to sell. 

Amusements in the Olden Times 

The old folks probably had quite as much fun as their de- 
scendants of to-day. It is related that Isaac LeFever, the first 
settler of Bontecoe, went to Albany and ran a foot race, in 
which his friends shouted in French, "Courage, Isaac." He 
won the race. Major Isaac, his grandson, skated to Albany 
and back in a day ; the skates he wore are now in the Me- 
morial House. It is related that cock fighting was not an un- 
known sport in the old times. The widow of Daniel, son of 
Abram Hasbrnuck, the patentee, lived in the house still standing 
directly opposite the brick church. She had a lot of boys, and 
"Wyntjc's kitchen" is spoken of as a famous place for cock 
fighting. We are told that the old folks thought nothing of 
riding as far as Shawangunk to a husking. Horse racing on 



HISTORY or NEW PALTZ 133 

the Paltz plains, which were not fenced in until about 1820, 
was a very common sport, especially at town meeting. 

The young men doubtless derived much innocent amuse- 
ment from the races, but there is an old story of a race on the 
plains which shows that there were some wicked young men 
in the good old days. 

The story dates back to the time of good old Dominie Bo- 
gardus. who was pastor of the churches at New Paltz and New 
Hurley, in 1820. Charles DuBois, of Liberty ville, was a 
prominent man in the church, and his son, Louis, was fond of 
horse racing, concerning which the dominie remonstrated with 
Charles. The latter sold his horse to another DuBois, like- 
wise named Louis. Subsequently, by trading, the dominie 
himself became the owner of the very horse, which he rode on 
his visits among the congregation, but of course never indulged 
in racing, ^'oung Louis did not submit in a very christian 
frame of mind, but bided his time. 

The race track for the young men, in those days, was over 
the Paltz plains, from Peter Elting's, now Edmund Eltinge's, 
to Andries Deyo's, now Josiah Sprague's place. Young Louis 
made his plans. The dominie was on his way to the village 
by the Kettelborough road, after preaching in the afternoon at 
New Hurley. The young man stationed a few companions, 
who were doubtless ready for the sport, at Andries Deyo's to 
wait for the fun. Then coming behind the dominie, likewise 
on horseback, he shouted at the dominie's horse, who, remem- 
bering old times, broke from the control of his driver and away 
both dashed. The dominie won the race, much against his 
will no doubt, and much to his chagrin, we may guess, as the 
young men, stationed at the outcome, swung their hats and 
shouted, "Hurrah for the dominie." The dominie could not 
check his horse till he reached the old oak tree, where Mr. 
Lowe now lives. 



134 HISTORY OF X lill' PALTZ 



CHAPTER XV 

The New Paltz Church 

The name Huguenot was not applied in the old days to 
the church at New Paltz, either by the people themselves 
or by strangers. It was called the W'alloon church ; some- 
times the French church. The people were called W' alloons. 
Louis DuBois, the leader in the settlement was called Louis 
the Walloon. 

The New Paltz church was peculiar in the respect that 
for a period of 75 years it owned no authority higher than 
its own membership, having no subjection to the classis 
of Amsterdam as had the Dutch churches. The church 
records, still in perfect preservation, are unique likewise in 
the fact that they are in three languages — in French for a 
period of about 50 years, then in Dutch for about 70 years 
and since 1800 in English. 

As New Paltz was settled by people who had left their 
home on account of religious persecution it was to be ex- 
pected that religion and the church should occupy a large 
place in their hearts when they made for themselves a new 
home in the wilderness. Several of the older settlers at 
New Paltz brought with them certificates of membership in 
the churches with which they had united, while sojourning 
in the Palatinate. Two at least of the Patentees and prob- 
ably others had Bibles in the French language. When they 
reached New Paltz on their journey from Kingston and 
alighted from their wagons one of their number read a 
psalm. Among the log buildings erected at the outset was 



HISTORY or NEW i'ALTZ 135 

one for a church and school house. In 1683, only five years 
after the settlement, a church was organized. In their pur- 
chase of the land of the Indians and their honest payment 
for it they displayed Christian principle, which had its just 
reward in the peace and friendship always existing between 
them and the savages. In the institution of the government 
of the Dusine or Twelve Men for the division of lands and 
settling of disputes concerning land titles they showed a 
feeling of Christian brotherhood, which prevented all law- 
suits on that score. It was not the spirit of commercial 
gain, but the desire to worship God according to the dictates 
of their own conscience that prompted the Huguenots to 
leave France. Religious motives led up to the settlement 
at New Paltz, religious principles controlled it and the exer- 
cise of religious duties and privileges formed an important 
part of the subsequent history of the place. 

This condition did not terminate with the first generation. 
In 1720, though there was no Church Building Fund in 
those days, a substantial stone church was built. There 
was no complaint about long sermons, we fancy, among 
people, some of whom walked several miles barefoot to 
church in summer and in winter tried to keep themselves 
warm in church by little foot stoves. During the long in- 
tervals when no minister visited New Paltz the journey of 
16 miles was made to Kingston, where a large proportion 
of the children in the early days were baptized. 

In writing the history of the New Paltz church it is pe- 
culiarly fortunate that all the records are still in existence. 
The opinion that has been advanced that one book had 
been lost because but two entries of baptisms are found 
from 1700 to 1730 is doubtless incorrect, as will be shown 
hereafter. 



130 HISTORY Ob' XEW PALTZ 

The books containiiii^ the church records are four in 
number. The oldest is a small memorandum book of 17 
pages, on coarse paper and somewhat yellow with age, but 
the writing is distinct. This book is altogether in French 
(with the exception of two entries interpolated at a later 
date in Dutch), and gives the record of baptisms and other 
matters while the church was under the charge of the two 
French pastors, Rev. Pierre Dailie and Rev. David lion- 
repos, extending from 1683 ^^ i/oo. 

The first entry is as follows in the handwriting of Lnuis 
DuBois: 

"Le 22 de Janv. (Janvier), 1683, monsieur pierre daillie, 
minister de la parole de dieu, est arive (arrive) au nouveau 
palatinat. et presca (precha) <leux fois le dimance (Diman- 
che) suivant, et proposa au ceef (chefs) des famille de coisir 
(choisir) a plus de vois (voix), par les peres de famille, un 
ancien et un diake (diacre), ce qu il firt (qu"ils firent), et coisir 
(choisirent) Louys du hois pour ancien et hughe frere pour 
diake, pour ayder le ministre a conduire les membres de 
Jeglise (I'eglise) quil sasemble (qui s'assemble) au nouveau 
palatinat; lequel furt confirme (lesquels furent con firmes) 
ensuitc dans ladict carge (charge) dancien et diake. Le 
present liuur (livre) a est faict (a ete fait) pour mestre 
(metre) les choses ijuil apatien (qui ap])artiennent) a la 
diet eglise." 

The translation is as follows: 

"The 22(1 (tf January. 1O83. Mr. Pierre Daillie. minister 
of the Word of (iod. arrived at New Paltz. and preached 
twice on the following Sunday, and proposed to the heads 
of the families that they should choose by a majority of 
votes, bv the fathers of families, one elder and one deacon. 



HISTORY OP xnir paltz 137 

which they cli<l. and chose Louis DuBois for elder and 
Hugh Freer for deacon, to assist the minister in guiding 
the members of the church that meets in New Paltz ; who 
were subsequently confirmed in the said charge of elder 
and deacon. This minute has been made to put in order 
the matters which pertain to the said church." 

The Two French P.\stors 

The two French pastors, Dailie and Bonrepos, usually 
visited New Paltz in the spring or early summer and again 
in October. The pastorate of the former extended over a 
period of ten years. His main field of labor was in New 
York, but he seems to have preached in various Huguenot 
communities. In 1691 and 1692 we find "Rev. Pierre Daillie 
of New York" officiating at the baptism of children at the 
Dutch church in Kingston. His last recorded service at 
New Paltz is in 1692. Before leaving France he had been 
Professor of theology in the Protestant seminary at Samur. 
In 1696 he received a call from the French church in Boston, 
where he died in 1715. aged about 66 years. 




OLD P.M'ER WITH SIGNATURE OF REV. PIERRE D.MLLE 

During the period of ten years from 1683 to 1693 the 
name of no child of New Paltz parentage is found recorded 
on the church book at Kingston. .All were ba]itized at New 
Paltz. 



138 HISTORY Of Miir I'.ILTZ 

l-rom iLkjU until 1700 Rev. David I5onrcpos visited New 
Paltz occasionally, baptizing children and receiving mem- 
bers at the table of the Lord. His special field of labor 
was on Staten Island. Book i ends with a marriage in 1702, 
which, althotigh not so stated, was probably performed by 
Bonrepos and was his last service here. A long blank in the 
church records follows, extending until 1729, broken by the 
record in Dutch of the baptism of two children, not of New 
Paltz parentage, in 1718. and by the account of the building 
of the first stone church, which was finished in 1720. It 
has been supposed that a book containing a record of bap- 
tisms and other church services from 1702 to 1729 must 
have been lost. But an examination of the Kingston church 
records shows that during this time a large number of 
children of New Paltz parents were baptised there. 

It is altogether likely that during this period of about 30 
years no regular minister held services at Xew Paltz for 
the reason that the people here had no claims on the Dutch 
church and probably did not understand that language, 
while the few French ministers, who had come to this coun- 
try were now dead or otherwise engaged and there were no 
French Protestant seminaries on either side of the Atlantic 
to train others in their stead. Be this as it may the fire still 
burned brightly on the altar as is shown by the entry on 
the church book when the first stone church was built, as 
follows : 

"I'leni sois Dieu. CJuij Le nous a mvs a cccur de Luy batir 
une maison pour y estre adores et servir. et que par sa grace 
nous Lavon finys en I.an Dix vii ; et Dieu veillie que son 
evangile y soit anouce dean cc ciecle et dedan Lautrc y 
us(|uc an jour D Lctcrnitc. Amen." 



IIISTURV Of NEIV FALTZ 139 

The translation is as follows: 

"Blessed be God, who has put it into our hearts to build 
a house where He may be adored and served, and that by 
his grace we have finished it in the year 17 [1717] ; and 
God grant that his gospel may be preached here from one 
age to another till the day of eternity. Amen." 

The First Stone Church 

Next on the church book comes the names of those who 
assisted in building the first stone church as follows : Mary, 
widow of Abraham Hasbrouck, now dead ; Luoy Bevier 
(deceased) and at present Samuel and Loui Bevier; Abra- 
ham DuBois, Huge Frere, Salomon Duboys, Louys Duboys, 
Abraham Doyo, Andres LeFevre, Joseph Hasbrouck, Jacob 
Hasbrouck, Mary Duboys, now dead, and at present Daniel 
and Philip Duboys, Jean LeFevre, Isaac LeFevre, Ely Un, 
Chrestiane Doyo, Hanry Doyo, Abraham Frere, Jacob Frere. 

It will be noted that Abraham DuBois is the only one of 
the original Patentees, whose name appears in this list. 
All the- rest were dead. 

In 1720 an entry is made in the church book assigning 
and deeding certain pews to all who had assisted in building 
the church. 

This church stood at the north end of the old graveyard. 
In 1895. in digging for the foundation for the addition to 
the residence of Mrs. S. A. LeFevre, the foundation of this 
old church was found and it was followed \\\) for some dis- 
tance. This building was the house of worship for the 
little community till 1773. Then a larger stone church was 
erected near the site of the present church edifice. The old 
church of 1717 was then taken down and the stone of which 



I40 



HISTORY OF Xr.ir IWLTZ 




THE Hk.sT STONE tIllKi.Il AT M.U lALlV, 



HISTORY OF XJLW r.lL'I Z 141 

it was built drawn lo a new site on wiial is nuw Xorlh l"'ront 
St., where they were used in building the school house, 
which was the only puldic school building in the village 
until 1874. Then a new brick school house was 'built and 
the old stone building was purchased by Mr. John Drake, 
who remodeled it somewhat and made it his residence. A 
pen and ink picture of this old church is found in an ancient 
map, which has come down from the days of the Dusine. 
It was probably the exact size of the school building, that is 
about T,^ feet s<|uare. It had a large window on each of its 
three sides and on the fourth a capacious door and portico. 
From the steeple a horn was sounded for religious meetings. 

There can hardly be a doubt that religious service of some 
kind was held at tliis church each ."^abbath even though no 
minister was present to conduct it. The entry on the church 
book, at the time of building shows how desirous the people 
were of having the gospel preached. 

There were some 16 or 18 families who assisted in building 
the church. The records of the Kingston church show that 
during the period from 1700 to 1730 an average of 5 or 6 
chifdren of New Paltz parentage were baptized there, each 
year. Had there been a minister visiting New Paltz, even 
two or three times a year, as in the days of the IVench pas- 
tors, very few would ]jr(j])ably have been taken on the long 
journey to Kingston. 

Rev. Joh.\nnes Van Driessen 

Rev. Johannes \^an Driessen took charge of the church 
at New Paltz in 1731. or possibly a year or two earlier. He 
received only £10 a year for his services. His first entries 
on the church book are in French. In one of these he calls 
the church here "our French church." Doubtless his ser- 



I4-' II I STORY C)J' Mill- r.lLTZ 

vices were in that lang^uage. Probably but a small portion 
of his time was spent at New I'altz. 

Mr. \^an Driessen was educated in lielgium. The church 
book contains a copy in Latin of a certificate showing that 
he had been examined in 1727 by the Presbytery of New 
Haven in the halls of Yale college and had well sustained 
the examination. In 1736 he accepted a call to the church 
at Acquackanonk, N. J., and for the space of about 16 years 
thereafter New Paltz was without a regular pastor, though 
visited occasionally by ministers from other churches. 

From 1700 until 1731 there is no record of officers of the 
church. At the latter date, when Mr. Van Driessen became 
pastor, Nicholas Rose and Andries LeFevrc were elected 
elders and Samuel Bevier and Solomon Hasbrouck deacons. 
In 1733 Louis DuBois, Jr. was elected elder and Christian 
Deyo deacon. In 1734 Nicholas Rose was again chosen 
elder; Jacob Hasbrouck was chosen deacon. In 1736 
Samuel r>evier was chosen elder and Daniel Hasbrouck 
deacon. Tlicii there is no further record of church officers 
until 1750. 

Rev. Johannes Van Driessen was not regularly ordained 
by the Dutch church and 20 years after he came to New 
Paltz the next regular minister. Rev. \\. Wooman, insti- 
tuted an inquiry as to whether the members admitted by 
Van Driessen believed the doctrines of the Reformed church 
according to the Ileidelbergh catechism. During Mr. \'an 
Driessen's pastorate of about five years 19 joined the church 
and about 30 children were baptized. During the same 
period about half that number of cliildren of New Paltz 
parents were baptized at Kingston. 

Ill 1738 a higliway, ])rt)l)ably the first in this town, was 
laid out on ihc cast side of the W'allkill for the ]iurpose. as 



HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 143 

stated in the record, of better enabling- the people to get to 
clnirch at New Paltz and Kingston. 

At this time the Dutch language was coming into more 
general use in New Paltz and a side light is thrown on this 
fact by the will of Jean Tebenin, the old P>ench schoolmaster 
in 1730 giving his property to the church with the special 
request that if the French language should cease to be used 
the Bible should be sold and the proceeds given to the poor. 

After 1736 there is no record of baptisms until 1739 when 
three are recorded in French by Rev. J. J. Moulinars. 

In 1740, in 1 741 and again in 1742 Rev. Isaac Chalker offi- 
ciated at six dififerent times, baptizing 15 persons in all. Each 
time the record is in English, but it is not to be supposed that 
the service was performed in that language, which nmst have 
been an unknown tongue to nearly all of his hearers. 

In 1 741 the New Paltz church, and Shawangunk, Roches- 
ter, and Marbletown made a call upon Rev. J. Casparus 
Freyenmoet, who was then preaching at Alinisink, but the 
call was not accepted and the consistory of the Minisink 
church sent a very indignant letter to the consistory of the 
Rochester church, reprimanding them for attempting to 
take away their minister. 

From 1742 to '49 the record shows no baptisms and one 
marriage only, that of Andries Le Fever and Rachel DuBois, 
Oct. 1745, after three proclamations "in our French Church," 
at New Paltz. The visiting ministers from the close of 
Rev. Mr. Van Driessen's to the commencement of the next 
regular pastorate baptized infants, but except in the case 
above noted no marriage by a minister is recorded from 1737 
to 1 75 1. In 1742 and 1749 marriages are recorded on the 
church books as being performed by Zacharias Hoffman, Esq.. 
and Cornelius DuBois, Esq. In the latter year the name of 



144 UISTUKY ur \ EW PALTZ 

Rev. J. Hcnn Goctschius appears as baptizing infants and in 
1751 he performed six marriages. He was settled over the 
chnrches at Scliraalenbergh and Ilackensack, occasionally 
coming to New Paltz, receiving members in communion and 
baptizing infants. In 1750 we find the name of J. C. Frey- 
enmoet. in 175 1 that of Rev. Theodorus Frelinghuysen "pas- 
tor at Albany" and in 1752 that of Dominie Meynema as 
performing baptisms. 

Rev. B.\rent Vrooman 

Then at last in 1753 New Paltz has once more a settled 
minister. Rev. Barent Vrooman. of Schoharie, whose call 
had been sent to Amsterdam and returned with the endorse- 
ment of the Classis. He was the first regularly installed 
Dutch pastor at Xew Paltz. He also preached at Shawan- 
gunk. His stay was short and in 1754 he accepted a call 
from the church at Schenectady. 

From this date we may consider the Dutch language and 
the Dutch church established in New Paltz, though in some 
of the homes the I-'rench tongue doubtless lingered a while 
longer. 

In 1 75 1. '"^2, "53 and '54 no less than j'^ persons joined the 
church on confession of faith and 23 by certificate from other 
churches. Part of these were admitted by Rev. J. H. 
Goetschius and part by Rev. I>. Wooman. 

The l)ounds of the Xew Paltz congregation at this time 
extended over a territory stretching about ten miles to the 
south and eight miles to the north, that is from New Hurley 
on the south to Swartekill on the north. John George 
Ronk of New Hurley, ancestor of the Ronk family, joined 
the church in 1750 and Johannes Hardcnbcrgh. of Rosen- 
dale, in 1 75 1 and were soon afterwards made officers in the 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 145 

church. A few years afterwards Petrus Ostrander of Platte- 
kill and Abraham Hardenbergh of Guilford were officers in 
the church. 

In 1752 at a meeting of the consistory it was resolved to 
elect, beside the governing elders and deacons, two more 
elders and deacons and this resolution was at once carried into 
effect. 

After Rev. 15. X'rooman departed for Schenectady the New 
Paltz church was dependent on supplies for six years. During 
that period Rev. J. H. Goetschius, Rev. Theodorus Freling- 
huysen, Rev. D. B. Aleynema and Rev. Johannes SchunemaR 
officiated at different times, baptizing quite a number of in- 
fants, although none joined the church on confession and but 
one marriage is recorded in all those years. 

Baptizing the Children at Kingston 

During the long intervals while New Paltz was without a 
minister some of the little children were baptized by visiting 
ministers, but a great portion were taken to Kingston and the 
solemn rite was there performed. In the 16 years from the 
end of Rev. Mr. Van Driessen's pastorate in 1736 to the com- 
mencement of that of Rev. B. Vrooman in 1752 there were 
about 85 children of New Paltz parents baptized at Kingston. 
During a portion of this 16 years, that is from 1742 to 1749, 
the record shows no baptisms at New Paltz and 59 of New 
Paltz parentage at Kingston, that is an average of over 7 each 
year. After 1752 there were few baptisms of New Paltz 
children at Kingston — only about a dozen in the next ten 
years. During this time visiting ministers came quite often 
to New Paltz and the church grew and prospered. It is 
worthy of note that the Kingston ministers never baptized chil- 
dren at New Paltz, though their church book shows that they 



146 HISTORY OF XEir FALTZ 

performed that service at Marbletown, Rochester, Shawan- 
gunk and Minisink. 

Tlie long ride from New Pahz to Kingston was taken prob- 
ably on horseback. There were no spring wagons until long 
after that date. The route on the east side of the Wallkill 
led from one to another of the stone houses, crossing the stream 
by a scow, just this side of the present Bontecoe school-house. 
W^e may suppose that a stop was frequently made at Rosen- 
dale, at the residence of Col. Johannes Hardenbergh, whose 
wife Marie DuBois, was the daughter of Louis DuBois. Jr., 
of Nescatock. A few miles further north at Bloomingdale 
we may suppose another stop would be made at the residence 
of Matthew LeFevre. who moved from our village about 1740 
and located there. There may have been a little danger from 
wild beasts, but there was none from Indians. In passing 
through the clearings the gates must be opened, as it was not 
till long afterward that the farmers were required to build a 
fence on each side of the highway. 

Connection' Between Church and State 

There was a close connection between church and state at 
New Paltz in those days as shown by certain records in papers 
that have come down in the Patentees' trunk, showing what 
matters were submitted to voters, as follows : 

In 1757 whether the money received for the collectorship 
should be applied on the highway or to the use of the church ; 
the latter was preferred. In 1758 the same question was again 
decided by vote with the same result. In 1759 it was put to 
vote whether the money received for the collectorship should be 
pivcn to the clerk of the church, to the poor, or used for the 
purchase of a "pall." It was decided to use it for the last 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ ia,7 

named purpose. The next year it was again voted to apply 
the money received for the collectorship to the purchase of a 
pall and the overplus for the purchase of a silver cup or 
beaker for the use of the church. The next year it was again 
voted that the money received for the collectorship should be 
applied to the purchase of a silver cup for the church. 

Rev Johannes Mauritius Goetschius 

In 1760 the churches at New Paltz and Shawangunk made 
a call on Rev. Johannes ^lauritius Goetschius. He was a na- 
tive of Switzerland, a younger brother of Rev. J. H. Goet- 
schius, had studied medicine before coming to America, studied 
theology with his brother at Hackensack, N. J. and had 
preached two years at Schoharie. The call, which was ac- 
cepted, stated that from Easter to October he should preach 
twice each Lord's Day, holding services alternately at Shawan- 
gunk and at New Paltz, preaching in the forenoon from some 
text in the Bible and in the afternoon from the Heidelbergh 
catechism. The rest of the year he was to preach one sermon 
each Sunday. He was to administer the sacrament of the 
Lord's Supper twice in the year at Shawangunk and twice a 
year at New Paltz and attend to the house visiting once a year. 
He should have a house, barn, 90 acres of land and a good 
spring at Shawangunk. where he had his home, and while at 
New Paltz should be provided with bed. board and quarters. 
He was to receive an annual salary of £80, one half to be paid 
by each of the churches. The call was approved by the Coetus 
in New York. 

Rev. Mr. Goetschius continued to minister to the churches 
at New Paltz and Shawangunk until 1771. when he died at Lis 
home in Shawangunk in the 48th year of his age and was 
buried in the baptistry of the church. Mr. Goetschius prac- 



148 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

ticed medicine as well as preached the gospel. In 1762, dur- 
ing the early part of his pastorate steps were taken looking 
toward the erection of a new church building at New Paltz, 
but the plan was not carried out, owing probably to the quarrel 
between the Coetus and Conferentia parties, which split the 
Dutch church at New Paltz, as well as elsewhere in America, 
into two factions and led to the erection of a church building 
about two miles from our village on the road to the county 
house by the Conferentia party. 

The Conferentia Church 

\\'e have come now to a most exciting period in the history 
of the Dutch church at New Paltz, as well as elsewhere in 
America : that is the period of the struggle between the Coetus 
and Conferentia parties. This strife was due we may say, 
stating the case broadly, to the same causes that afterward 
provoked a revolt against the political control of Great Britain. 
In each of these cases the grievances were not great, but the 
American child, feeling its ability to walk alone, did not care 
to pay homage any longer to the mother church or to the 
mother country. 

The Coetus party did not care to own allegiance to any for- 
eign ecclesiastical power. 

The Conferentia party held that the church in this country 
ought to remain subordinate to the classis of North Amsterdam 
and accused the Coetus party of "despicable ingratitude against 
their benefactors, who had so long labored for their well being 
and have exerted so many efforts in behalf of the churches of 
New York." 

The battle raged fiercely among the Dutch churches in 
America. The consistory of the New Paltz church took sides 
with the Coetus and the great majority of the people ranged 



HISTORY OF NEIV PALTZ 149 

themselves with that party. There was an element, however, 
respectable in numbers and especially so in means and influence, 
which sided with the Conferentia. This party was almost 
altog^ether of Dutch descent, had moved from Kingston to 
New Paltz at a considerable period after the first settlement, 
and few had formally united with the church here. This party 
comprised the Eltings, the Lows and the Van Wagenens ; also 
Jacob DuBois, who had recently moved from near Kingston, 
and Hendricus DuBois. The last named was a member of the 
New Paltz church and may be considered the foremost man in 
the Conferentia movement. In 1765 he was suspended for 
provoking schism and secession in the church and refusing to 
answer after three citations. He was evidently not much 
frightened and two years afterwards a meeting was held at his 
house to organize a Conferentia church. Rev. Isaac Rysdyck 
of Poughkeepsie and Fishkill was the ofiiciating minister. 

The following persons, members of the Kingston church, 
joined the new church organization : Josiah Elting and his 
brother Xoah, Petrus Van Wagenen, Jacob DuBois, Rebecca 
\'an Wagenen, Dirk D. Wynkoop, Magdalena DuBois, Ja- 
comyntje Elting, Sarah Low. On the same day the following 
joined the church : Petrus, Solomon and Isaac Low, Hendricus 
DuBois, Debora Van \"liet and Jannitje Houghtaling The next 
year there were admitted to the church on confession Josiah 
Elting's four sons : Roelif J., Abraham, Solomon and Corne- 
lius ; also various female members of the families of those 
previously mentioned ; also Jacobus Auchmoody. 

The new church organization was weak in numbers, but 
strong in determination and had a house of worship almost 
completed before the church was organized. This church 
building was located a short distance this side of the present 
residence of Capt. W. H. D. Blake, about two miles south of 



I50 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

our village, on the west side of the Wallkill. This church 
building was called "Kerk of het Grootstuck" that is in Eng- 
lish "Church of the Great Piece," that being the name of the 
tract of land on which the church was located and which be- 
longed to Noah Eltinge. It was usually called the "owl" 
church, probably because the neighborhood abounded in owls. 
It was a frame building, 30 feet square, boarded without, plas- 
tered with clay within, shingle roofed, and containing 20 pews. 
It cost about £150. Josiah Kiting and Hendricus DuBois 
were the most liberal contributors, each giving about £25. 
Noah Eltinge was elected elder and Petrus Van Wagenen 
deacon. Rev. G. D. Cock served for a time as stated supply 
for this cluirch. Then in 1774 Rev. Rynier \'an Nest was 
called to the pastorate of the church at Shawangunk and 
the Conferentia church at New Paltz. He received as 
salary £60 a year from Shawangunk and £20 a year from New 
Paltz. 

The feud between the Coetus and Conferentia parties in the 
Dutch church in America did not prevail many years, but it 
was a long time before the two churches at New Paltz were 
united. 

In 1 77 1 a convention was held in New York, attended by 
delegates, ministers and elders from most of the churches, at 
which articles of union were drawn up. The Coetus church 
at New Paltz was represented by Johannes Hardenbergh. The 
Conferentia church had no delegate. The articles of union, 
adopted at this convention, left the church in this country prac- 
tically independent of the mother church in Holland, though 
it was provided that if difficulties should arise concerning im- 
portant points of doctrine or any member be deposed on account 
of heresy or misconduct there should be the right of appeal to 
the classis of Amsterdam. Johaimes Hardenbergh, delegate 



HISTORY OP XEIV PALTZ 151 

from the old church at New Paltz, signed this agreement and 
his action was promptly approved by his consistory. The Con- 
ferentia party at New Paltz took no action for a long time. 
Finally in 1783 the spirit of harmony had been restored to so 
great an extent that at last the "owl" church was abandoned 
as a house of worship and its members in full harmony joined 
with the worshipers in the church in this village and its records 
were preserved with those of the older church. The "owl" 
church building was taken down and a granary was built of 
its material by Roelif J. Elting, at his home in this village. 
During its existence the total number of baptisms registered in 
this church were 60. There were 2 marriages recorded 
and 35 persons in all had joined the church. Of this 
number 19 united with the church in this village May 25th, 

1783- 

The persons who came in from the Conferentia church were 
Dirk Wynkoop, Jr. and wife Sarah (daughter of Noah Eltinge) 
Abraham Elting, David Low, Henry DuBois and his wife 
Rebecca \'an Wagenen and his mother Janiteje Houghtaling, 
Jacob DuBois and wife, Solomon Low and wife, Magdalena 
DuBois widow of Josiah Elting, Margaret Hue widow of Wil- 
liam Patterson, Maria Low wife of Roelif J. Elting, Cornelius 
Elting, Jacobus Auchmoody, Ann DuBois, Petrus Van Wage- 
nen and wife Sarah Low. 

Having now concluded the history of the Conferentia church 
we go back twelve years and take up the history of the original 
New Paltz church. 

In March 1771 the pastor. Rev. Mauritius Goctschius died. 
In October of the same year the Convention was held in New 
York, which apparently had no immediate efTect at New Paltz, 
though it resulted in the restoration of harmony twelve years 
later. 



152 HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 

The Second Stone Ciirkcii 

In the same year, 1771. though without a minister and with- 
out the assistance of the Conferentia party, action was taken 
toward building- a new house of worship. The location of 
this new church was a few yards south of the site of the 
present brick church. The land was bought of Petronella Le- 
Fevre, widow of Simon. The new church building was of 
stone, much larger than the old church and remained as the 
house of worship until 1839. The following persons were 
chosen as the building committee: Abraham Deyo (grand- 
father of the late Judge Abm. A. Deyo of Modena) Jacob 
Hasbrouck. Jr. (great-grandfather of Jacob M. Hasbrouck) 
Simon DuBois (great-grandfather of the late John W. Du- 
Bois) Nathaniel LeFevre (great-grandfather of Hon. Jacob 
LeFevre) Garret Freer. Jr., A])raham LeFevre (great-grand- 
father of Josiah LeFevre ) and Hugo Freer, ancestor of a num- 
ber of the Bontecoc Freers. The initials of several of these men 
and the date may still be seen in a large stone under the horse 
block at the south end of the jxirtico. This was no doubt the 
comer stone of the building. Abram Deyo was appointed 
overseer of the work. He was required to give a bond and he 
kept a strict account of everything. His account book, in the 
Dutch language, containing a full statement of these matters 
is in possession of his descendant Abni. Deyo Brodhead. who 
occupies his house. 

.\ lime oven was erected and lime for making mortar burned 
on the ground. The masons' helpers were paid 4 shillings a 
day. a man with a team and wagon was paid 9 shillings a day 
for carting lime and 10 shillings a day for carting wood: I 
shilling a day was allowed for boarding each workman ; au- 
thority was given to buy beer for the workmen, also a barrel 
of rum. 



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•53 




THE SECOND STONE CHIRI 11 AT NEW I'ALTZ 



154 HI ST OR)' or X/iir PALTZ 

This cluirch was a substantial, well-proportioned building, 
with a hipped roof and a cupola from which a bell sounded for 
religious services. The total subscriptions amounted to only 
i546, but the sum realized from the sale of pews fully doubled 
that amount. The list of subscribers comprises 85 names, the 
Freers being far in advance, with 17 names. The heaviest 
subscribers were Jacob Hasbrouck. Jr. £55, Abram Deyo £45, 
Wyntje Hasbrouck £33, Col. Abni. Hasbrouck (Kingston) £30, 
Hugo Freer £2^. Simon Duliois izy. 

In the list of subscribers appear the names of 17 Freers con- 
tributing £162, 9 LeFevres contributing £130, 8 Hasbroucks 
contributing £168, 8 Deyos contributing £97. 6 DuBoises con- 
trilnitiiig Ij"/, 4 P.eviers c<intril)uting i^j, 3 Hardenberghs con- 
tributing £7^2, 3 Terwilligers contributing £32, 5 Ostranders 
contributing £9, 2 Fans contributing £7. 2 Schoonmakers con- 
tributing £11, 2 Lows £15, 2 \'andemarks £17. 

There are also on the list of c()ntri])ut<irs the names of Dr. 
Geo. Wurts, Petrus Smedes. John York. Tennis \'an \'liet, 
Dennis Relyca, Johannes W'alron, Lewis Brodhead and Joseph 
Coddington. The last named was the village schoolmaster and 
perfornied much clerical work connected with building of the 
church. 

Among the names of purchasers of seats, beside those resid- 
ing in this vicinity were Philip D. P>. Bevier of Rochester, 
David Bevier of Marbletown. Col. .\l)ni. Hasbrouck of King- 
ston. Isaac Hasbrouck. Jr. of Stone Ridge. Jacobus I'.ruyn 
of r.ruynswick. Hendrick .*^niit of Rifton. Col. Johannes 
Hardenbergh of Rosendalc and Dennis Rclyea of New 
Hurley. 

The total api)raisenuMU of the |>ews was £2280. The total 
sum realized at the sale was considerably more, amomuing to 
£2r,84. 



11 1 STORY OF XHir PALTZ 155 

Although the work was commenced in 1771 it was not until 
1774 that the pews were sold at public auction. 

The old Shawangunk church, with which the New Paltz 
church had formerly been connected, being now a Conferentia 
church, the New Paltz church joined with the New Hurley 
church in 1775 in extending a call lo Rev. Stephen Goetschius, 
which was accepted. He was the son of Rev. J. Henry Goet- 
schius and nephew of his predecessor Rev. Mauritius Goet- 
schius. He was 23 years of age when he came to New Paltz 
and remained here 21 years — a longer period of service than 
any of the successors. He was a graduate of Princeton and 
had studied theology with four eminent divines, including his 
father. His call stated that New Paltz should receive two- 
thirds of his services and provide him with house, barn, 60 
acres of land, pay £56 10 s. as salary. New Hurley should 
pay £33 10 s. annually. About ten years afterwards his salary 
was increased to £114, New Paltz paying two thirds and New 
Hurley one third. 

In the early part of his ministry he boarded with Capt. Lewis 
DuBois who resided about half way between New Paltz and 
New Hurley. His daughter Elizabeth he married. In his 
later years at New Paltz he built tUe Philip D. Elting stone 
house, still standing in the northern part of our village. He 
was the only minister who ever built a house at New Paltz. 
His pastorate covered the eventful period of the Revolutionary 
war and the reunion of the Conferentia party with the church. 
The period succeeding the Revolutionary war was not favor- 
able to the growth of religion owing to the influence of French 
thought and hVench skepticism and we may suppose that New 
Paltz did not entirely escape the contagion. During the long 
period of his pastorate 102 in all were added to the church, 
including the 19 from the Conferentia church. Toward the 



156 H J STORY OF XEir PALTZ 

close of his ministry, which ended in 1796. he preached occa- 
sionally in English, which he had learned sufficiently for that 
purpose and which pleased the younger members of his con- 
gregation. He is described as a man of deep thought, abun- 
dant in labors and holding strongly to Calvinistic doctrines. 

A loose slip of paper in the church book dated 1782, shows 
that Joseph Coddington had been reader and singer in the 
church and Simeon Low was his successor. The paper, which 
is a subscription list, commences as follows: "Whereas read- 
ing and singing during religious service are not only beautiful, 
but in accordance with the word of God and the canons of the 
church, therefore the consistory, after Mr. Coddington for 
different reasons had resigned, have unanimously elected Mr. 
Simeon Low and contracted with him for £3 annually." 

Rkv. Joiix II. Meyer 

The next minister was Rev. John H. Meier. He was a 
graduate of Columbia College and had studied with Rev. Dr. 
John H. Livingston. Mr. Meier was called to the pastorate 
of the churches of Xew Paltz and Xew Hurley in 1709. His 
call stipulated that he was to preach three-fifths of the year at 
Xew Paltz and two-fifths of the year at Xew Hurley and that 
the services should be performed one half in Dutch and one 
half in English. As his salary he received ;£i35. besides a 
house, bam and 60 acres of land at Xew Paltz. He was to call 
on each family in the congregation once in two years. From 
this time the church records are written in English. He re- 
mained only a little over three years, when he received a call 
from the church at Schenectady. During his pastorate 22 were 
received as members of the churcli. 154 were bajitized and 88 
marriages were performed. 



II I Sr DRY OF NEW PALTZ 157 

Riiv. Peter D. Fkeligii 

The church was without a minister about four years and 
then a call was made by the two churches upon Rev. Peter D. 
Freligh, who accepted. He was a graduate of Columbia Col- 
lege, his father and uncle were ministers and he had previously 
had charge of a church in the northern part of the state. He 
preached alternately in English and Dutch. He was faithful 
in catechising the young and his sermons were sound and in- 
teresting. He remained until 181 5, when he removed to Ac- 
quacanock, N. J. During his pastorate 82 persons joined the 
church and 177 marriages were solemnized. 

Rev. William R. Bogardus 

Rev. Wm. R. Bogardus was the next minister, his pastorate 
commencing in 181 7. He was a graduate of Union College, 
Schenectady, and of the Theological Seminary at New Bruns- 
wick. N. J. He was a young man when he came to New Paltz. 
For eleven years he served the churches at New Paltz and New 
Hurley, riding back and forth on horseback. From 1828 to 
1 83 1 he w^as pastor of the New Paltz church alone. Besides 
his other qualifications as a preacher and pastor he had the gift 
of song in a remarkable degree and even in old age would lead 
in the singing. He is remembered by the old people as an elo- 
quent preacher of the word of God and a faithful and con- 
scientious pastor. His ministry was greatly blessed. During 
his pastorate 280 joined the church, 696 were baptized and 379 
marriages performed. In was during his pastorate that the 
first great wave of temperance reform swept over the state and 
Mr. Bogardus was one of its pioneers in Ulster county. When 
a new barn was erected at the parsonage a pitcher of cold 
water, flanked with temperance tracts took the place of the 



158 HISTORY 01' XEir PALTZ 

strong drink customary on such occasions. In 1831 he ac- 
cepted a call from the church at Acquanonck, X. J., and in 
1856 retired from the ministry. 

Ri;v. I)(jr\v Van Olinda 

The next minister was Rev. Douw \'an (Jlinda. He was a 
graduate of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., 
and before coming to New Paltz had been minister at Cana- 
joharie, X. V. His first service at New Paltz was on the first 
Sunday in January. 1832, and he remained at X"ew Paltz twelve 
years. The period of his pastorate was a time of active public 
enterprise in the town, marked 1)y the building of the Xew Paltz 
Academy, the Xew Paltz turnpike and that portion of the pres- 
ent church building that now constitutes its eastern extension. 
In the building of the Academy he took a very active part and 
may we think be considered the prime mover. He was pos- 
sessed of much executive abilit\. His sermons were preached 
without any notes. In 1839 tlie brick church was built to take 
the place of the old stone church which had been the house of 
worship for more than 60 years. The congregation was now 
too large for this old church building. 

After due consideration it was decided that the new church 
edifice should be of brick. Its dimensions were as follows: 
length 66 feet, width 54 feet, height 26 feet. It was modeled 
after the church of New Hackensack in every respect except 
the steeple. The portico, with its jnllars, and the vestibule, 
likewise the steeple and clock were constructed as they remain 
to the present day. A basement was made under the edifice 
in which i)raycr meetings and Sunday school have since been 
held. The stones of the old church went into the basement 
and foundation walls and so did the stones of the LeFevre 
house, which until that time had occu])ied what is now the 



HISTORV OP XEir I'ALTZ 159 

northern ])art of the cliurchyard. 1 "he hell of the old church 
went into the school house and a new one, costing $375, was 
presented to the consistory by the citizens of the place and this, 
with its mellow tones, still continues to summon the worshipers 
to the house of God. 

In 1844 Rev. Douw \'an Olinda resigned his position as 
pastor and took charge of a church at Fonda, N. Y. 



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CHAPTER XVI 

Old County Rixokbs at Kingston 

In the county clerk's office at Kingston is a box containing 
a number of ancient papers. 

Among the most interesting and vahiable of these old papers 
is the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors from 1710 to 
1731, inclusive, written in English, in a plain hand. 

It appears from this document that in 17 10 there were only 
five towns in the county : Kingston. Hurley. Marbletown, 
Rochester and Xcw Paltz. F'efore the close of this record in 
1731 the number of towns in the county had greatly increased 
and included New Windsor and other places in what is now 
Orange county and also what is now Delaware county. The 
only business performed by the supervisors in those days, as 
appears from this record, was tlu- auditing of bills against the 
county. Most of these Inlls were for bounties for killing 
wolves. Solomon DuBois of Poughwoughtenonk killed 12 
wolves in one year and for a number of years was the cham- 
pion wolf slayer in the county. Possibly a number of these 
wolves were caught in the trap now in the Memorial House, 
which caught the last wolf in this town and was at the time 
the property of Josiah DuBois. great-grandson of Solomon. 

The county treasurer in 1710. as appears from this record, 
was Jean Cottin. who after serving tlic Xew Paltz people for 
many years as their schoolmaster, moved tn Kingston, married 
the widow of Louis DuBois the Patentee, long carried on the 
mercantile business and when he died left his property to the 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ i6i 

church. Monsieur Cottin was county treasurer for several 
years and on two or three occasions, when the county was in 
debt a Httle, he advanced the needed sum. He charged for nis 
services one year £2. 

Roehf Elting, the ancestor of the New Paltz Eltings, had 
not yet moved from Kingston and represented that town in the 
Board of Supervisors in 171 1 and 1712. 

Col. Henry Beekman, who with Capt. Garton represented the 
county in the colonial legislature in 1710, brought in to the 
supervisors "an account of wine expended the third and fourth 
days of October last when his Excellency the Governor was in 
Kingston to the value of at least £3." The supervisors did not 
allow this bill, thinking no doubt that if he was disposed to 
feast the Governor he should not ask the county to pay 
the bill. 

The next year, in 171 1, Col. Beekman is allowed a charge 
of £5 for a present to the Esopus Indians. In 1713 Major 
John Hardenbergh is allowed £1 16 shillings for a present to 
the Indians and Frederick Van Vliet is allowed £1 for five 
days spent in going to the Indians. In 1714 he is allowed a 
charge of 10 shillings for going to the Indians. 

In 1714 Abraham DuBois, the last survivor of the Patentees, 
represented New Paltz in the Board of Supervisors. Evert 
W'ynkoop represented Kingston, Matthew Ten Eyck repre- 
sented Hurley and Capt. Thomas Garton Marbletown. This 
year the Supervisors decided that they would pay Col. Henry 
Beekman for his expenses in coming and going, while he was 
serving as representative in the colonial legislature, but not for 
the time while there. Col. Beekman asked that if the charge 
were not paid by the king if it might be promised by the 
Supervisors, but they decided that it was not "cognizable" so 
far as thev were concerned. 



i6a HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 

In this year, 1714, appears the first charge for laying out 
highways. The next year Joseph Hasbrouck of Guilford, Capt. 
Egbert Schoonmaker and Arion lierison bring in a charge 
as commissioners for laying out highways. In the same 
year the Supervisors voted iioo for repairing court house 
and jail. 

In 1716 Solomon DuBois of Xew Paltz killed no less than 
12 wolves, for which he is allowed £7 4 shillings as bounty by 
the Supervisors. In previous years he had also headed the 
list as the foremost wolf killer in the county. In 1712 there 
were 21 killed in all, of which number 6 were slain by Solo- 
mon DuBois, I by his brother Abraham DuBois. 2 by Louis 
Bevier and 1 by Moses Cantain, who, about 1704, moved 
from New Paltz to Ponckhockie. In 171.^ Solomon DuBois 
headed the list with 6 wolves killed and in 1714 he slew 5 and 
no other person more than 2. In 1717 he slaughtered 4 wolves, 
but this number was excelled by Jacobus Swartwout. who 
killed 6. Wolves appear to have been more numerous at New 
Paltz than elsewhere. The names of Daniel DuBois and 
Hugo Freer, Jr. appear among those killing wolves in 1717. 
The Dubois brothers, sons of Louis the Patentee, especially 
distinguished themselves as wolf hunters, the names of David 
DuBois of Rochester and Jacob of Hurley appearing on the 
list in 1717. In the latter case however the record says 
"killed by his negro." 

The different towns in the county were represented in the 
Board of Supervisors in 1710 as follows: Kingston. Edward 
Whitaker ; Hurley. Capt. Mattys Ten Eyck ; Marbletown. 
Capt. Charles Brodhead ; Rochester. Capt. Jochim Schoon- 
maker; New V'altz. Left. Solomon DuBois. 

All the Supervisors with one exception are set down with 
their niilitarv titles. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



163 



The different charges agamst the county allowed by the 
Supervisors in 1710 are as follows: 



Col. Beekman, services as representative £27 

Capt. Garton, services as representative 27 

Jean Cottin, county treasurer 2 

David DuBois, killing 2 wolves i 

Gerrit Decker, i " o 

Cornelius Litts, 2 " i 

Jacob Vernooy, i " o 

Solomon DuBois, 2 " i 

Philip DuBois, i " o 

Peter Jansen, 2 " i 

Severyn Tenhout 1 " o 

Jan Worts. 3 " i 

Louis Bevier, 2 " i 

Aaron Genton, i " o 

Jacob Barentse, for ringing the bell ... 2 

William Nottingham, services as clerk. 9 

Mattys Slccht o 

Bernardus Swartwout, i years service 

as messenger and i load of wood. ... 4 

Total £95 



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9 





4 





12 





4 





12 





4 





12 





4 





12 





16 





4 





12 





5 





15 


6 


13 


6 



2S 6(1 



In 171 1 in addition to the usual charges Mattys IMattyson 
is allowed £5 for "making carriages for ye great guns." 

Tn 1 71 7 the tnwns were represented in the Board of Super- 
visors as follows: Kingston, ^[ajor Johannes Wynkoop; Hur- 
ley. Nicholas Roosa : Marbletown. Charles Brodhead ; New 
Paltz. Joseph Hasbrouck ; Rochester, Lieut. David DuBois. 

In addition to the regular charges for wolf killing, etc., Evert 



i64 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Wynkoop is allowed 12 shillings for half of vat beer for the 
Assessors and Tunis Tappan is allowed a charge for meat, 
drink and house room for the Assessors. 

In the older books in the County Qerk's office are several 
records of matters of interest to New Paltz people as follows : 

Could Not Build a Church by Tax 

In 1716 an agreement was made by the New Paltz people 
to erect a new church edifice and this action was duly recorded 
in French in one of the old record books. Afterwards it was 
concluded that this agreement was not legal; so the church 
was built by voluntary contribution. The entry on the county 
record is marked "Cancelled," and four years later appears the 
following entry in English, signed by Abraham Deyo : I, Abra- 
ham Deyo, having caused a certain writing, made by the major 
part of the inhabitants of the town of the New Paltz concerning 
the building of a common house for the worship of God and 
other uses for the town, to be recorded and by experience have 
found that the said writing is and may be a breach of ye peace 
of said town, concerning said town house and ye building 
thereof, I do hereby order and direct the said writing to be 
cancelled on record as if it had never been. 

Wills of Early New Paltz People 

The oldest books of record have a few wills of New Paltz 
people, jumbled in with deeds and other legal papers. Among 
these wills are the following : of Louis Bevier the Patentee, in 
Dutch, dated in 1722; of Abraham Deyo. son of Pierre the 
Patentee, in French, dated 1725; of Andre LeFevre, eldest son 
of Simon LeFevre the Patentee, in English, dated in 1738; of 
Cornelius DuBois of Poughwoughtenonk, dated 1780; of Dan- 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 165 

iel LeFevre of Bontecoe, dated in 1784; of Jacob I. Hasbrouck 
of Marbletown, dated in 1818. 

Other Valuable Papers 

Other valuable ancient records concerning New Paltz people 
in the County Clerk's office are quit claims, given by the chil- 
dren of Louis DuBois the Patentee to each other for their 
shares in their father's estate in 1706; an acknowledgment, 
dated in 1714, from Louis Bevier of Marbletown and his wife, 
Elizabeth Hasbrouck, that they had received certain property 
from Jacob Hasbrouck, Andre LeFevre and Louis DuBois, 
executors of Jean Hasbrouck the Patentee; a deed, dated in 
1704. from Moses Cantain of Kingston and Mary, his wife, to 
Mattys DuBois. 

The most interesting of these old records in our estimation 
is a deed of gift, dated in 1705, from Anthony Crispell the 
Patentee to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Ehas Uine (Ein), 
of four lots at New Paltz : the first located on the south side 
of the Paltz creek, between the Bontekous kill and a lot of the 
heirs of Simon LeFevre ; second lot lying on the south side of 

Bontekou's kill, in an elbow called in Dutch in heyning; 

the third lot lying on the north side of the Paltz creek, between 
a lot of Isaac DuBois and a lot of the heirs of Simon LeFevre, 
on the side of the farthest Bontekou ; the fourth lot lying on 
the north side of the Paltz creek, opposite the house of Abra- 
ham Freer, in a half moon. This deed of gift further provides 
that after the death of Elias Uine and his wife, Elizabeth Cris- 
pell, the property shall go to their descendants forever and shall 
never be sold to strangers, but that it may be sold to descendants 
of the said Anthony Crispell. 

The foregoing record is specially interesting to the writer 
because Bontekous kill, still known by that name, is the brook 



i66 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

in which, when a small boy he would stop to fish on his way 
home from school. The Eins still own and occupy the first 
mentioned of the four lots and the LeFevres still own and 
occupy the adjoining farm, on which Isaac, son of Simon the 
Patentee, located probably about 1718. 

But the greatest value that attaches to this record is the fact 
that it shows that Abraham Freer, second son of Hugo the 
Patentee, as early as 1705 had moved from the village and built 
a house five miles north, near the northern bounds of the patent, 
directly across the Wallkill from the piece of lowland still 
called the Half Moon and owned by the Eins until about 1880. 
On this spot, about 200 yards south of the Bontecoe school- 
house and about half a mile south of Perrine's bridge, still 
stands an old stone house, which may be the identical house 
built by Abraham Freer. 



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CHAPTER XVII 

Signers of the Articles of Association 

The descendants of all persons who signed the Articles of 
Association are admitted to membership in the Daughters of the 
American Revolution and other patriotic societies of the pres 
ent day. The Articles of Association were adopted on the 
29th day of April, 1775, ten days after the fight at Lexington, 
by the "Freemen, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the City and 
County of New York," and copies of the document were trans- 
mitted to all parts of the province of New York for signers. 
The language of these Articles of Association was very bold 
and shows a spirit of determined opposition to British tyranny. 
In the various towns in Ulster county most of the people signed 
the document. The heading was as follows : 

articles of association 

"Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of 
America depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabi- 
tants in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for 
its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the 
anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers 
of government, we, the Freemen, Freeholders, and Inhabitants 
(of the City and County of New York), being greatly alarmed 
at the avowed design of the ministry to raise a revenue in 
America, and shocked by the bloody scene now acting in the 
Massachusetts Bay, do. in the most solemn manner, resolve 
never to become slaves ; and do associate under the ties of 



i68 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

religion, honor, and love to our country to adopt and endeavor 
to carry into execution, whatever measures may be recom- 
mended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our 
Provincial Convention, for the purpose of preserving our Con- 
stitution, and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary 
and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament, until a recon- 
ciliation between Great Britain and America on Constitutional 
Principles (which we most ardently desire) can be obtained; 
and that we will in all things follow the advice of our General 
Committee, respecting the purpose aforesaid, the preservation 
of peace and good order, and the safety of individuals and 
private property." 

In New Paltz a meeting was held of which Nathaniel Du- 
Bois was chairman and Joseph Coddington was committee 
clerk. There w^ere in all 218 signatures in this town to the 
Articles of Association. 

The names of the men, descendants from early settlers at 
New Paltz, appear in the document as follows : 

Abraham Deyo, Abraham Deyo, Jr., Simon Deyo, Simon 
Deyo, Jr., Christophel Deyo, Philip Deyo, Jonathan Deyo, 
Daniel Deyo, Henry Deyo, Jr., John B. Deyo, Johannes Deyo, 
Jr., Peter Deyo, Christeyan Deyo, Benjamin Deyo, Nathaniel 
DuBois, Louis T. DuBois, Jacob DuBois, Hendricus DuBois, 
Cornelius DuBois, Daniel DuBois, Isaac DuBois, Cornelius 
DuBois, Jr.. Simon DuBois, Hendricus DuBois, Jr., Methuse- 
lem DuBois. Benjamin DuBois, Abraham DuBois, Andreus 
DuBois, Jr., Daniel DuBois. Jr., Andrics LeFevre, Jr., Andries 
LeFevre, Jonathan LeFever. Isaac LeFever, Abraham LeFever, 
Daniel LeFevre, Matthew LeFevre. Solomon LeFevre, Na- 
thaniel LeFevre, Petrus LeFevre. John LeFevre. Jr.. John 
LeFevre, Roelif J. Filing. Abraham Kiting Cornelius Flting, 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 169 

Solomon Elting, Petrus Bevier, Samuel Bevier, Solomon Be- 
vier, Jacob Bevier, Zacharias Hasbrouck, Jacob Hasbrouck, 
Jr., Petrus Hasbrouck, Joseph Plasbrouck, Benjamin Has- 
brouck, Jr., Josaphat Hasbrouck, Jesaias Hasbrouck, Jacobus 
Hasbrouck, David Hasbrouck, Garret Freer, Jr., Petrus Freer, 
Simon Freer, Daniel Freer, Jr., Hugo Freer, Jr., Isaac Freer, 
Benjamin Freer, Jacob T. Freer, Paulus Freer, Jonas Freer, 
Jonas Freer, Jr., Joseph Freer, Johannes Freer, Daniel Freer, 
Johannes Low, Solomon Low, Jehu Low, Johannis M. Low, 
Isaac Low. Simeon Low, David Low, John A. Harden- 
bergh, Elias Hardenbergh, Peleg Ransom, John McDaniel 
(McDonald), \Vm. Hood, Abraham Ein, John Terwilliger, 
Joseph Terwilliger, George Wirtz, Derrick D. Wynkoop, 
James Done, Abraham Donaldson, James Auchmoutie, 
Thomas Tompkins, Jedediah Deur, Zophar Perkins, Oliver 
Grey, Leonard Lewis, John Stevens, Daniel Fowler, Daniel 
Woolsey, Alexander Lane, Abm. Vandermerken, Michael 
Devoe, Richard Tompkins, William Reeck, Johannis Walron, 
Petrus \^an Wagenen, Ebenezer Perkins, Johannes Eckert, 
Nathaniel Potter, Daniel Diver, Samuel Johnson, Ralph Trow- 
bridge, and others whose names we do not recognize but who 
were probably residents in the territory in Esopus and Lloyd, 
then a part of New Paltz. 



People of New Paltz ancestry signed the document in other 
towns of the county as follows : 

Kingston — Joshua DuBois, Jeremiah DuBois, Jacobus Du- 
bois, Samuel DuBois, \\'illiam DuBois, Hezekiah DuBois, 
Johannis N. DuBois, David DuBois, Hezekiah DuBois, Jr., 
Johannes J. DuBois, Johannes DuBois, Elias Hasbrouck, Abm. 
A. Hasbrouck, Solomon Hasbrouck, Col. A. Hasbrouck, A. 



I70 IIISTORV OF XEir PALTZ 

Hasbrouck. Jr., Samuel l-Veer. Jan Freer, Solomon Freer, John 
Freer, Jacob l-Veer, Gerrit Freer. 

Hurley — Johannes DuBois. Jacob DuBois, Jr., Hugo Freer, 
Jacob Freer. Jr., Benj. H. Freer, Hugo J. Freer, Jonathan 
Freer, Jecimia Freer, Samuel LeFevre, Simon LeFevre, Jacob 
LeFevre, Coenradt LeFevre. 

Marbletown — Coenradt DuBois, David Freer, Philip B. 
Freer, Jacob S. Freer, Severyn Hasbrouck, John Hasbrouck, 
Isaac Hasbrouck, Jr., Joseph Hasbrouck, Jr., Jacobus B. Has- 
brouck, Jacob J. Hasbrouck, Jacob I. Hasbrouck, Jacob Has- 
brouck, Philip B. Bevier, David Bevier. 

New Marlborough — Lewis DuBois, Henry Deyo. Senior. 

Rochester, including Wawarsing — Jonas Hasbrouck, Jo- 
hannes Bevier, Simon Bevier. Benjamin Bevier, Andrew Be- 
vier, Abraham Bevier, Jacob Bevier, Coenradt Bevier, Solomon 
Bevier. Tesse Bevier, Tosiah Bevier, Isaac Bevier. 



HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 171 

CHAPTER XVIII 

New Paltz in the Revolution 

The volunie published by the State in 1898 entitled "New 
York in the Revolution," contains the names of about 40,000 
soldiers from this State. The list as published in the volume 
mentioned is unsatisfactory in not saying what towns the com- 
panies were from. 

There were four Ulster Co. Regiments of militia. 

The First Ulster county Regiment was sometimes called the 
Northern Regiment, and was drawn mainly from the northern 
part of the county. Johannes Snyder was colonel. 

There are more New Paltz names in the Third Regiment, 
John Cantine of Stone Ridge, colonel, than in any other 
organization. 

In the Fourth L'lster county regiment, appear also a large 
number of New Paltz names. Jonathan Hasbrouck of New- 
burgh, was colonel of this regiment, but owing to his ill health 
it was most of the time commanded by Lieut-Col. Johannes 
Hardenbergh, Jr., of Swartekill. 

As to the names appearing under the head of "Land Bounty 
Rights," the following explanation is given : Toward the close 
of the war of the Revolution a bounty of "Land Rights" was 
offered to officers and men for tw'O regiments to be raised for 
the defense of the state. A master or mistress who should 
deliver an able bodied slave to serve w^as entitled to one Right. 
By the act of 1778 each militia regiment was divided into 
classes of 15 men. When soldiers were needed to complete 
the regiments of the Line, otherwise known as Continentals, 
each class must within nine davs furnish a man fullv armed 



1/2 HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 

and equipped. If a class furnished a man it was entitled to 
a money bounty ; afterward a land bounty was added. 

There is no evidence from the state documents to show that 
the men who signed the Land Bounty Rights ever saw active 
service and Comptroller Roberts has published their names for 
whatever they may be worth. He says additional proof is re- 
quired to show that any of the names that appear in the Land 
Bounty Rights are of men who actually served in the army. 
We find a large portion of the names that appear under the 
heading of "Land Bounty Rights" also appear in the names of 
the militia as elsewhere published. 

It is not possible to tell from these records, as published, 
whether the men whose names are given below resided in New 
Paltz or other parts of the county, but their ancestors were 
New Paltz Patentees, the Eltings excepted : 

1ST ULSTER COUNTY REGIMENT 

Lieut., Anthony Freer. 

Abm. Crispell, Jacob Crispell, John T. Crispell, Peter T. 
Crispell, Peter J. Crispell, Benj. Crispell, John J. Crispell, 
Jacobus DuBois, James DuBois, Win. DuBois, David DuBois, 
James DuBois, Jr., James DuBois. Jeremiah DuBois, Johannes 
DuBois. John DuBois. John L DuBois, John J. DuBois, John 
T. DuBois, Matthew DuBois. Robert DuBois. Wm. DuBois, 
Hendrich Elting. John Kiting. Peter Elting. Peter Elting. Jr , 
Wm. Elting, Garret Freer. Abm. Freer. Benj. Freer, Hugo 
Freer, Jeremiah Freer, Jcremias Freer. Johanis Freer. Jonathan 
Freer, Peter Freer. Samuel Freer. Jacobus Hasbrouck. Daniel 
Hasbrouck. Jacobus Hasbrouck, Jr., John Hasbrouck, Jonathan 
Hasbrouck, Solomon Ha.sbrouck, Conrad LeFevre. Jonathan 
LeFevre. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 173 

LAND BOUNTY RIGHTS 

Capt., Simon LeFevre. 

Abraham DuBois, Cornelius DuBois, Hezekiah DuBois, 
Jacob DuBois, Johannis DuBois, Jr., Peter DuBois, Samuel 
DuBois, James DuBois, Joshua DuBois, Jacob Freer, Petrus 
Freer, A. Hasbrouck, Jr., Abraham Hasbrouck, Elias Has- 
brouck, John Hasbrouck, Jr. 

2ND ULSTER COUNTY REGIMENT 

Capt., Matthew DuBois. 

LAND BOUNTY RIGHTS 

Isaac DuBois. 



3RD ULSTER COUNTY REGIMENT 

Capt., John Hasbrouck. 

Lieuts., Jacobus Flasbrouck, Cornelius DuBois, Daniel Freer, 
Joseph Hasbrouck, Josiah Hasbrouck. Ensign, Levi Deyo. 

Abni. Bevier, Abm. Bevier, Jr., Benj. Bevier, Cornelius Be- 
vier, Jacob Bevier, Conrad Bevier, Matthew Bevier, Nathaniel 
Bevier, Petrus Bevier, Abm. Crispell, Henry Deyo, John Deyo, 
Simon Deyo, Abm. B. Deyo, Levi Deyo, John Deyo, Abraham 
Deyo, Jr., Ezekiel Deyo, Daniel Deyo, Isaac Deyo, Andrew Du- 
Bois, Asaph DuBois, Conrad DuBois, Daniel DuBois, Daniel 
DuBois, Jr., Hendricus DuBois, Henry DuBois, Isaac DuBois, 
Jacob DuBois, John DuBois, Jacobus DuBois, Mathusalem 
DuBois, Nathaniel DuBois, Wessel DuBois, Abm. Elting-, 
Isaac Freer, Thomas Freer, Jacob Freer, Jr., Jacob J. Freer, 



174 HISTORY Of XEIV PALTZ 

Jacob S. Freer, John I. Freer, Paulus Freer, Peter Freer, 
Joseph Freer, Sol. Freer, Jr., John Hasbrouck, Jonas Hasbrouck 
Solomon Hasbrouck, Benj. Hasbrouck, Joliii Hasbrouck, Jr., 
Severyn Hasbrouck, Andries LeFevre, Noah LeFevre, Jona- 
than LeFevre, Solomon LeFevre, Matthew LeFevre, John Le- 
Fevre. 

LAND BOUNTY RIGHTS 

Andries Bevier, Benj. Bevier, Jr., David Bevier, Elias Be- 
vier, Jacob Bevier, Jr., Johan. Bevier, Jr., Ph. D. Bevier, Samuel 
Bevier, Simon Bevier, Abm. Deyo, Henry Deyo, Jr., Levi Deyo, 
Luke Deyo, Simon Deyo, Abm. Deyo, Benj. Deyo, Christopher 
Deyo. Daniel Deyo, Hendricus Deyo, Johannis Deyo, Jr., Jona- 
than Deyo, Philip Deyo, Solomon Deyo, Andries DuBois, Cor- 
nelius DuBois, Garrit DuBois, Jonathan DuBois, Joseph Du- 
Bois, Louis J. DuBois, Samuel DuBois, Tobias DuBois, Abra- 
ham Ean, Roelif Eltinge, Abm. Eltinge, Cornelius Eltinge, 
Ezekiel Eltinge, Hendricus Eltinge, Jr., Josiah Eltinge, Jr., 
Noah Eltinge, Thomas Eltinge, Benjamin Freer. Daniel Freer, 
Daniel Freer, Jr., Isaac Freer, Isaac Freer. Jr., Jeremiah Freer, 
Johannis Freer, Jonas Freer, Petrus Freer. Simon Freer, Solo- 
mon Freer. Jerry Freer, Jr., Nathaniel LeFevre, Abm. Le- 
Fevre, Andries LeFevre, Andris LeFevre, Jr., Daniel LeFevre, 
Isaac LeFevre, Jacob LeFevre. Johannes LeFevre. John Le- 
Fevre. Matthew LeFevre. Nathan LeFevre. Peter LeFevre. Jr., 
Petrus Lcl't-vrc*. Philip LeFevre. 

•4TII ULSTER COUNTY RKGIMF.NT 

Cols., Jonathan Hasbrouck, Johannes Hardenbergh. 

Quartermaster, Cornelius DuBois. Jr. 

Capts.. Louis J. Dul'dis. Jacol) Hasbrouck. Jr. 

Lieuts., Andries lievicr, b'shua DuBois. Abm. Devo. Jr., 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 175 

Anthony Freer, Petrus tlasbrouck, Matthew LcFevre, Simon 
LeFevre. 

Ensigns, Mathuselem DuBois, Nathaniel DuBois, Daniel 
Bevier. 

Abm. Bevier, Cornelius Bevier, Daniel Bevier, Jonas Beviei, 
Nathaniel Bevier, Andries DuBois, Hezekiah DuBois, Jona- 
than DuBois, Nathaniel DuBois, William DuBois, Andries 
DuBois, Jeremiah Freer, John Freer, Conrad LeFevre. 

LAND BOUNTY RIGHTS 

Johannis Bevier. Jonathan Bevier, Hendricus De\o, Louis 
DuBois, Wilhelmus DuBois, Petrus Eltinge, Benjamin L Freer, 
Benj. T. Freer, Elisa Freer, Joannis Freer, Martinis Freer, 
Cornelius Hasbrouck, Isaac Hasbrouck, Jonathan Has- 
brouck. 

In the Fourth Orange County Militia, Col. John Hathorn, 
Joseph Hasbrouck of Guilford was Lieut. -Col. John, Solo- 
mon and Noah LeFevre. all of Kettleborough. served in this 
regiment. 

In the Albany County Militia appear the names of Lieut. - 
Col. Cornelius DuBois and Capt. Benjamin DuBois of Catskill. 

John Freer was colonel of the 4th Dutchess Co. Regi- 
ment. 

Peter and Simon Freer served in the 5th Dutchess Co. 
Regiment. 

Abm. Freer, Jr.. and Thomas Freer served in the Dutchess 
Co. Minute men. 

In the 5th Regiment of the Line or Continentals Louis 
DuBois was colonel, Philip DuBois Bevier and David DuBois 
were captains. 

Berthold Fernow. custodian of the department of manu- 
scrij)ts at the state library at Albany published m 1888 as com- 



176 HISTORV OF NEir FALTZ 

plete a list as could then be obtained of Xcw York Revolu- 
tionary officers and soldiers. 

In the list \vc find the following names of people who were 
of New Paltz lineage : 

Jonathan Hasbrouck, Col.. 4th Regiment, Ulster county 
militia. 

Abraham Hasbrouck, Lieut. Col., ist or Northern Regiment, 
Ulster Co. militia, October 25, 1775; Col. same Regiment 
elected February 13; Commander February 20, 1775. 

Elias Hasbrouck, Captain 3d Regiment New York Line, 
June 28, 1775; Captain of a company of Rangers in 1777. 

Zachariah DuBois, Major Cornwall Regiment Orange County 
militia. 

Simon LeFevre was reappointed ist Lieutenant, 7th Com- 
pany, 1st (or Northern) Ulster county Regiment, May 28, 1778, 
Captain same Company, vice Gerardus Hardenbugh, resigned 
October 23, 1779. 

The following commissions at the dates given were issued 
to Lewis DuBois, of Marlborough. 

Lewis DuBois, Captain, 3d Regiment N. Y. Line, Dutchess 
county Company, July 3, 1775; Captain, 4th Ulster county 
militia Regiment South District New Marlborough Precinct, 
Sept. 20, 1775; Major, N. Y. Line, Feb. 9, 1776; Colonel 5th 
Regiment, N. Y. Line, June 25, 1776, resigned Dec. 22, 1779, 
upon reduction of regiment. 

Third Regiment, Ulster Co. Militia. 

COMMISSIONS ISSUED OCT. 25. 1 775. 

1st Company — Captain. Lewis J. DuBois; ist Lieutenant, 
John A. Hardenbergh ; 2nd Lieutenant. Matthew LeFevre; 
Ensign, Mathusalcm DuBois. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 177 

2d Company — Captain, Jacob Hasbrouck, Jun. ; ist Lieu- 
tenant, Abram Deyou, Jun.; 2d Lieutenant, Petrus Hasbrouck; 
Ensign, Samuel Bevier. 

Third Company, no names given. 

COMMISSIONS ISSUED FEB. 21, 1 778. 

Jacob Hasbrouck, Jun., promoted Major, Vice Joseph Has- 
brouck, Lieutenant Colonel, February 21, 1778. 

ist Company — Captain, John Hardenbergh; ist Lieutenant, 
Jon'n Terwilliger ; 2d Lieutenant, Daniel Frere; Ensign, Levi 
Deyou. 

2d Company — Captain, Abr'm Deyou ; ist Lieutenant, Petrus 
Hasbrouck; 2d Lieutenant, Samuel Bevier; Ensign, Joshuah 
Hasbrouck. 

COMMISSIONS ISSUED FEB. I7, I780. 

Second Lieutenant, Josiah Hasbrouck vice Bevier, declined, 
Ensign, Petrus Bevier. 

In Col. John Cantine's Regiment, 3d Ulster Co. militia, 2d 
New Paltz Company served Jonathan LeFevre, John LeFevre, 
John A. LeFevre, Matthew LeFevre, Philip LeFevre, all 
privates. Noah LeFevre was Sergeant in Brodhead's Co., 
Hathorn's Regiment, Orange Co. militia. 



178 IIISTORy OF XEii' FALTZ 

CHAPTER \1X 

Guarding the Fkontiek iku.m Turies and Lnjjians 

Col. John Cantine of the Third Lister County Mihtia was 
ranking officer in 1778 in tlie Rondout X'alley, which was then 
the frontier and exposed to attacks from the Indians, who 
would travel hundreds of miles to obtain scalps and plunder 
and spare neither age nor sex. Col. Cantine lived near Stone 
Ridge. His father, Peter Cantine, was a native of New Paltz ; 
his brother Matthew was a member of the Council of Safety ; 
his sister Catharine was the wife of iJaniel LeFevre of Bonte- 
coe. There were more New Paltz men in this regiment than 
in any other. The First and Second companies were officered 
altogether by New Paltz men. 

Joseph Hasbrouck of Guilford was lieutenant colonel in this 
regiment; Jacob Hasbrouck, whose residence was in what is 
now the Memorial House in this village, was a captain in this 
regiment and afterwards a major; his son Josiah in 1780 re- 
ceived a commission as second lieutenant in this regiment. In 
this regiment also Abraham Deyo, who lived on Huguenot 
street, where Abm. Deyo Brodhead now lives, was captain ol 
the Second company ; Petrus Hasbrouck, who lived about three 
miles north of this village, was first lieutenant. In the First 
company Lewis J. DuBois, whose house is still standing on the 
east side of the Liberty villc ford, was captain; John A. Har- 
denbergh of Guilford was first lieutenant; Matthew LeFevre 
of the Plains was second lieutenant; jMathusalcm DuBois of 
Nescatack was ensign. iMatthew LeFevre's brothers John and 
Jonathan were privates in the .'Second company and likewise 
their cousins, John A. and Pliilii) Lel-^evre of Ktettleboro. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 179 

Col. Cantine's Letters to Gen. Clinton 

From letters to ( ien. Clinton, which are now published, it 
is evident that his own regiment and the First Ulster Co. Regi- 
ment, scjmetimcs called the Northern Regiment, which was 
commanded by Col. Johannes Snyder, were both stationed in 
the northwestern part of our county. 

The time when these letters was written was atout a year 
after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, after which 
there were no important battles in this state. But, as will be 
noted from the letters, the First and Third Ulster County regi- 
ments, commanded respectively by Cols. Snyder and Cantine, 
were required at these stations on the western frontiers of 
Ulster and Orange counties, Col. Cantine being in command, 
not only of his own regiment, but of all detachments of militia 
in actual service on the frontier, including, not only the two 
Ukter county regiments mentioned, but detachments from the 
regiments of Colonels W'ofxlhull. Hathorn, Newkirk, Has- 
brouck and Tusten. These were all Ulster and Orange county 
men. They were all needed to protect the frontiers from the 
attacks of tories and Indians. Their task was especially dis- 
agreeable, because it was not known at what moment a force 
of savages might swoop down on the scattered habitations. 

In a letter to Gen. Clinton, written July nth, 1778, Col. 
Cantine says : 

"The men from I'lster County are posted, 40 at Memema- 
coting. 130 at Ihmck. 80 at (ireat Shandaken, and at Little 
Shandakcn the wliole (^f Col. Snyder's regiment, which Returns 
I have Xot as yet had. The Whojo Will amount to about 400, 
a Number Quite Sufficient. 1 believe, to Defend posts at pres- 
ent where the proportions But Equal out the Different Regi- 



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ments. This moment I am informed by Col. Nevvkark that 
Several of the Orange County men are on their Way to Peen- 
peck and Minsinck. I have sent Detachment from the Dif- 
ferent posts to the Delaw^are. With orders to act against 
those who are taken an active part against us as Enemys, 
Leaveing others Unmolested, excepting those In v^hose pos- 
session the goods robbed from the Inhabitants of the frontiers 
Should Be found. 

Have also at the unanimous request of the inhabitants of 
Lurienkil, Naponagh. Warwasinck and the Southern part of 
Rochester, Changed my post from Lackawack to this place 
(Honck Falls), finding it much more Convenient for keeping 
out Scouts and patroling parties, as the Woods on Both Sides 
of Lackawack are Exceeding Rof that it is Impossible to keep 
out Scouts at any Distance there. By the Last Returns of 
Col. Newkark, of the Orange County at Peenpeck and Mini- 
sinck, there where about Ninety men (that is) Eleven from 
Col. Woodhull's, fifty-nine of Col. Heathorne's, twenty of Col. 
Tusten's." 

Money Promised When He was Appointed at New Paltz 
In a letter written at Rochester, Aug. 19, Col. Cantine says : 

"I would Not have Changed my post from Lagawack to' 
Hunk if It had Not Been at the Unanimous Request of the In- 
habitants Concerned. Not But I judge that Lagawack would 
have answered the purpose as well as Hunk (Except) that of 
Keeping out Scouting parties mentioned in my Last and the 
additional Expense of getting up supplys for the Regiment. 

The Little money I was able to advance was soon Expended 
in Supplying the Regiment and Col. Newkark makeing Appli- 
cation to me for money in favour of the men he had employed 



lUSTOKY OF NEW FALTZ i8l 

to provide for the party at Peenpack and Minisinck till Such 
Time as it would be in the power of the Commissary to Supply 
them and that he could Buy much Cheaper for Cash; and as 
Your Excellency may Remember of Signifying at the time of 
my appointment, at ye New Paltz, to give me an order on the 
treasurer for that purpose, I haveing my promises, on the Ex- 
spectative of Being Supplyed In that manner and therefor 
would have been glad to have Received the order. But as it 
would take us out of the Common Course of Business I Shall 
Endeavor to Do without it. 

Murder by Indians 

In a letter, from Col. Newkirk, forwarded to Gen. Clinton 
by Col. Cantine, it is stated that about 20 Indians and one 
McDonald, a Tory, had come to the house of one Brooks, took 
the whole family, 1 1 in all, as prisoners, murdered and scalped 
one who was wounded and carried off the rest. 

Escaped from Indian Captivity 

Another letter from Cantine to Clinton relates the wonderful 
story of the capture and escape of George Andries and Jacob 
Osterhout, who were captured by the Indians under a Mohawk 
chief and were carried almost to Fort Niagara ; then at night 
while the savages slept Andries made a desperate attempt for 
liberty, got an ax with which he killed the three Indians who 
composed the party together with two squaws, who escaped. 
Andries and Osterhout got back to Ulster county in 19 days, 
almost starved. With the letter to Qinton is enclosed the 
affidavits of Andries and Osterhout, giving a full account of 
their escape from Indian captivity. 



i82 HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 

Paving His Men 

In regard to paying his men Col. Cantine writes : 

Your Excellency will readily conceive that the making of 
monthly pay abstract for this Regim't will be attended with 
many Difficulties, when you consider that the monthly Detach- 
ment of the Different Regim'ts, of which this is composed, Do 
commence at Different Days. I, therefore would be glad to 
Draw a Sum of money in order to pay off the diflFerent com- 
panies as their time expires, making an abstract of the whole 
at the time when I shall be Discharged, and then account for 
the sum drawn. 

Cowardly Beh.aviour of Orange County Militia 

In a letter written from Marbletown to Gen. Clinton, Aug. 
28, 1778, Col. Cantine says: 

I also had Information of the Unsoldierly Behaviour of the 
troops at them posts, which Caused my Going their to inquire 
into the matter which, haveing Done, I found that also to Be 
true. Capt. Miller, of Col. Heathorn's Regiment, haveing 
evecuated his post, on the freevilous Report that two Indians 
haveing Been Seen By some of his Scouts, which had Been out 
a few miles into the woods. He went off in Such a Hurry as 
to leave his Bread in the oven and his Beef in the well. Not- 
withstanding he was in a fort which, with the men he had in it, 
migiit In my opinion have Been Defended against five hun- 
dred men. Lieut. Tryon, of Col. Ellison's Reg't, Hearing that 
the enemy was back of Jacob Dcwitt's mill at the time Mr. 
Brooks' family was tacken. Run of, saying Every man for .him- 
self and God for us all, and went of with the greater part of 
his company, not Returning till the next day — if my informa- 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 183 

tion is Right. The conduct of these 10 men appeared so scan- 
dalous that I could not avoid laying them under Errest and 
ordered them to Repear at the court martial at Goshen on the 

25th instant. 

200 Indians Reported — Man Shot 

The guard from Shandaken haveing fetch Down the Inhabi- 
tants of Packatacan with some of their Effects, Returned on 
the Evening of the 26th Instant. Petter Hendrics, who left 
their, Came down Immediately after them with the following 
information that Harmania Dumon was going to his place at 
Pancatack and meet the guard Comeing from there about five 
miles from it. Dumon proceeded on to his house. Loaded his 
wagon with his effects, and on his Return about two miles from 
his house was shot through the Belly. Peter Hendrics further 
Says that there was two Hundred of the Enemy and few Cattle 
that Seame to have Been Left was all taken. 

Time of Some of Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck's Men Expired 

As the time of Capt. Conklen — who Lays at that post — of 
Colo. Hasbrouck's Regim't. is Expired to Day and No Relief 
is yet Come to that place, I, with the advice of Coll Pawling, 
Called some of my own Regim't to fetch down Dumon as well 
as to Distroy ye provision on that place agreeable to yours on 
the 22d. 

Gen. Clinton Replies 

In a letter to Col. Cantine. written at Poughkeepsie. Sept. 
6th, 1778, Gov. Clinton speaks of the recent burning of three 
houses and the killing and taking prisoners of men on the 
frontier and says : 

This Mischief, if I understand the Geography of the Country 



l84 history of XEJf PALTZ 

aiid am not mistaken as to the particular Situation of the above 
Persons' Habitations, might have been prevented liad your 
Guard occupied the first Post at Lackawack. 

Plunder by the Militia 
Gen. CHnton says moreover in another letter : 

I am much surprised to learn that the Parties of Militia 
which have been sent out to the settlements on the Delaware to 
remove the Cattle and Effects from thence and thereby prevent 
their serving as Supplies to the Enemy, have considered what 
they have brought off as Plunder and accordingly appropriated 
the same to their own use. Upon what principle or by what 
authority this is done you best know. This is contrary to every 
Idea of Justice and good Policy and will be productive of much 
Mischief is certain. I am bound, therefore, to call upon you to 
eixercise your Authority as Commanding Officer of the Detach- 
ments of Militia in actual Service on the Frontier of Ulster 
and Orange Counties not only to prevent the like abuses in 
Future, but to have the past to be rectified as far as may be 
in your Power. 

I am fully convinced that we are not to have Peace on our 
Frontier until the Straggling Indians and Tories who infest it 
are exterminated or drove back and their Settlements destroyed. 
If, therefore, you can destroy the settlement of Acquago it will 
in my opinion be a good Piece of Service. 

Shortly afterwards in September Clinton writes to Col. 
Cantine that he has received a petition from inhabitants of 
Marbletown, asking that a guard be stationed on the frontier 
of that town to scout north and south and stating that he 
favored granting the petition provided he (Col. Cantine) ap- 
proved it and could spare the men. He advises him to confer 
with Judge Pawling in reference to this matter, asks his opinion 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 185 

as to the number of men needed to proceed against the Indian 
town of Ocquago and says that he approves of offering a reward 
of $100 for the capture of .Middagh and Parks, through whose 
agency much mischief had been done. 

A week afterwards Col. Cantine writes to Clinlon that he had 
received information, supported by affidavits, that Brant the 
Indian leader, was on the war path, with a force, variously esti- 
mated at from 200 to 450, that he has visited German Flats 
and Unadilla and it was reported would strike a blow some- 
where in this quarter. As his men are not acquainted with the 
woods he asks for authority to employ one or two spies to go as 
far as the Delaware and give timely notice of the coming of 
Brant's savage warriors ; he thinks that 600 or 700 men would 
be needed to attack the Indian town of Ochquago. He adds : 
But as my Regt. now Stands it is not in my power to undertake 
an Expedition of that nature, as the Reliefs are Comeing and 
going every week in the month. I have consulted with Judge 
Pawling But he thinks it will not answer with militia, as they 
are called out in classes, as many are men you can not depend 
on unless the number be greater than I mentioned. 

On the 2 1st of October Gen. Clinton writes to Col. Cantine 
that Gen. Washington has sent him information, corroborating 
that from other sources that the Senecas and other tribes of 
Indians are prepared to attack the settlements. He considers 
Minisink in the most imminent danger and says that Col. Cort- 
landt's regiment is on the way from Peekskill to Rochester 
and that his brother's whole brigade will probably be sent out 
for duty on the frontier; but as it will be some time before 
they arrive a greater proportion of militia should be called into 
the service. 

On the 22nd of November Gen. Clinton writes to Cantine 
from Po'keepsie that he had received a letter from Col. Cort- 



i86 HISTORY Of XEW PALTZ 

landt ( wlio it is evident had then arrived with his regiment) 
that it would now be safe to allow the militia in actual service 
on the frontier in Ulster county to return home except about 
70 to be stationed as follows : 2 officers and 25 men at Shanda- 
ken, I officer and 10 men at Yeugh's creppelbush, i officer and 
10 men at Queens kill. 2 officers and 20 men at Mamakating. 
Gen. Clinton says : As I am extremely desirous of making their 
Duty as little burthensome as may be consistent with the safety 
of the frontier settlement, it is therefore my desire that you 
dismiss for the present all but the above number. 

Next on the file is a letter dated Dec. 13, from Capt. W'm. 
Johnson, who was a Mohawk chief, and three other chiefs, 
threatening vengeance in case the people on the Delaware above 
Econack were molested. 

April 2 1 St. 1779, W. Malcolm writes to Gen. Clinton from 
Minisink that as his regiment has been incorporated with Spen- 
cer's all his officers except two or three have resigned and he 
shall do so too ; moreover that the frontier is now unprotected ; 
worst of all about 40 savages have attacked Lacawack and 
burned the place and houses within 13 miles of the River. 

( )n the 25th of April Col. Cortlaiult writes from Rochester to 
Gen. Clinton that he had received orders from Gen. Washing- 
ton to march his regiment immediately to Minisink and he sup- 
poses he will go to Wyoming ; his absence will leave the fron- 
tier unprotected. 

Two (lays later. April 27th. 1770. .\. Dc Witt. John Rrod- 
head and 64 other citizens, writing from Rochester, send a 
petition to Gen. Clinton stating that Col. Cortlandt (who had 
been protecting the frontier) had received marching orders 
from Gen. Washington and asking that a sufficient guard might 
be furnished to i)rotect them from the savages. 

On the 29th of .Xpril Clinton writes to Cortlandt wishing 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 187 

him an agreeable march and stating that he had ordered a fourth 
part of Col. Cantine's and a fourth part of Col. Snyder's regi- 
ments to occupy the posts that he (Cortlandt) now holds, until 
he can relieve them by the levies intended for the defense of the 
frontier, not yet completed. 

On the 4th of Alay Col. Cortlandt writes to Gen. Clinton that 
just as he was marching his regiment he received an account 
of the burning of several houses at the Fantine kill. He 
marched to intercept the enemy, whom he saw, but could not 
surround, as they were on a mountain when discovered. They 
had burned four houses and killed 6 persons and perhaps 3 or 
4 more. They had not killed any of the soldiers, nor had the 
soldiers been able to kill any of the Indians, though they ex- 
changed shots with them at a long distance. The Indian band 
was thought to number 30 or 40. As he (Cortlandt) was un- 
der the most pressing orders to march with all expedition he 
forwarded this letter by express. He said in closing that Col. 
Cantine had gone to Lackawack and that he thinks not over 
50 of the men whom Gen. Clinton had ordered had as yet ar- 
rived, although more might come the next day. 

In this attack the Indians murdered Mrs. Isaac Bevier and 
her sister ]\Irs. Michael Sax and others, some 8 in all. A num- 
ber of neighbors fled across the mountain to Shawangunk. 

The next day Gen. Clinton writes to Cortlandt that he had 
ordered out one fourth of Hardcnbergh's regiment and one 
fourth of McCloughry's regiment to join Cantine and a like 
proportion of the three northern regiments of Orange county 
to such posts on the frontier of that county as the command- 
ing officers shall deem best ; the same day Clinton writes to 
Cantine that he has ordered one fourth of Hardcnbergh's regi- 
ment and one fourth of McCloughry's regiment to march im- 
mediately and ])ut themselves under his command. 



i88 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Indian X'ii.lages Destroyed 

In the summer of this \ car ( len. Qinton's advice that it was 
necessary in order to have peace on the frontier that the Indian 
settlements should be destroyed was fully carried out. Gen. 
James Clinton with five Xew York state regiments united with 
Gen. Sullivan and routed the Indians under their celebrated 
leader Brant, near Elmira, with little resistance ; then burned 
their villages and destroyed all food supplies. In this expedi- 
tion into the Indian country in what is now central Xew York 
Col. Lewis DuBois bore an important command. 

Still Another Attack on W'awarsing 

In 1 78 1 another and the last attack was made on the Wawar- 
sing settlements, a large force of Indians being fitted out at 
one of the northern forts under command of one Coldwell. 
Five or six houses at \\'awarsing were burned by the savages. 
The inhabitants defended themselves with great bravery. A 
force of about 400 men. under Col. John Cantine, started the 
next day in pursuit, but gave up the chase without capturing 
any of the savages. 

A full account of the Indian forays in ^^'awarsing was pub- 
lished in pamphlet form in 1846 by a member of the Bevier 
family. 

Capt. Abm. Devo's Men 

Among the old papers preserved in the Deyo family at New 
Paltz, is a pay roll dated Sept. 19th. 1778. and signed by 23 
men, acknowledging that they had "received of Capt. Abra- 
ham Doiau our respective wages and billeting money for one 
month's term of duty at the Frontiers. ( parts of months of 
July and .A.ugust. 1778)." 



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Among the 23 signatures are those of Isaac DuBois, whose 
home was the Old Fort on Huguenot street and Zachariah 
Hasbrouck, who Hved in the old stone house, across the street 
from the Reformed church. The name of Abraham Ean of 
Bontecoe also appears among the signers. 

These men were certainly with Col. Cantine. They were 
apparently called out for one month only and then allowed to 
return to their homes. From one of Cantine's letters to Clin- 
ton it is evident that the different companies from various regi- 
ments came in at different times. 



I90 HISTORY Of XEir I'ALTZ 



CHAPTER XX 
History of Farming at Xew Paltz 

The history of fanning in Lister county practically begins 
at about the time of the settlement of Xew Paltz in 1678. 
Kingston was settled about a score of years earlier, but we 
hav^e reason to believe that trading with the Indians for furs, 
was until about this time one main occupation of the people, 
though wheat was grown to quite an extent. 

The Indians of the Atlantic States raised com, beans and 
pumpkins and the savages who came on board the vessel of 
Hendrick Hudson as he sailed up the Xorth River traded with 
the crew for corn and beans. Do any of my readers as they 
make or eat the soup of sweet corn usually called "ogreeches" 
ever consider the origin of the word? It is not English or 
Dutch or French. Rut undoubtedly both the name and the dish 
itself were from the Indians. We have not found any one 
outside of Ulster county who knows what ogreeches means. 

In the grant of the patent of New Paltz by Gov. Edmund 
Andross we find that he required from the patentees the pay- 
ment of an annual rental of "five bushels of wheat, payable at 
the Redoubt at Esopus to such officers as shall have power to 
receive it." Wheat, then, was the staple product of the early 
settlers. One of the first sales of land in this vicinity, of which 
we have any record was in 1699, when Antoinc Crispcll, one 
of the Paltz Patentees sold to Louis Rcvier, another of the 
Patentees, his share (one twelfth part ) of the land already 
divided in the immediate vicinity of this village. The price 
paid was 140 schepels of wheat. \\'heat then was not only 



HISTORY OF XEIV PALTZ 191 

the staple crop but, to some extent, the substitute for money in 
commercial transactions. 

In another sale of land at New Paltz in 1693 we find the 
payment made partly in wheat and partly in tlax seed. 

The annual rental of five bushels of wheat for the tract of 
about 36.000 acres, included in the Paltz Patent, was, we are 
told, always paid promptly and it is related that the Freers for 
paying the rent, one year, without help from the other mem- 
bers of the little colony, received a tract of land at Mud Hook 
in the north-west bounds of the patent. Even this small mat- 
ter of five bushels of wheat may have seemed no trifle to the 
handful of settlers during the first few years, when but a small 
clearing had been opened in the wilderness. 

The progress of agriculture and the growth in population 
were ver}- slow in the century that elapsed from the first settle- 
ment until the time of the Revolution. Here and there, along 
the streams, the sons and grandsons of the early settlers, at 
Kingston and New Paltz located and opened clearings. 

About 1720 Jacob Freer, Hendrick Deyo and Isaac LeFevre, 
son of Simon LeFever the Patentee, located some 4 or 5 miles 
north of this village in the neighborhood still called Bontecoe. 
Abraham Freer, son of Hugo, located there previous to 1705. 
The land in that locality was famous, in those days, for the 
production of wheat. 

The land at the first settlement was of course, all owned in 
common. There were divisions of land, in the Patent, at 
least two different times. 

There was little sale of land in those old colonial days and 
the price was almost nominal. When Matthew LeFever moved 
from this village and located at Bloomingdale, in the present 
town of Rosendale, about 1740. he paid $700 for 700 acres of 
land. The farm lately owned by Abm. \'. N. Kltinge along 



192 HISTORY OF XEIV FALTZ 

the turnpike, directly east of this village, was purchased by his 
great-grandfather, Roelif J. Elting, about the time of the Revo- 
lution, for $2.50 an acre, and tradition still preserves the fact 
that he thought he was compelled to pay an exhorbitant price. 
In the early part of the present century, good upland in the 
towns of Marbletown and Rochester has been sold at less than 
10 cents per acre. About 1830 good lowland in this county was 
worth $50 an acre. The farm of Lewis H. Woolsey consisting 
of 180 acres was purchased by his father about 1820 for $4000 
— that is about $22 an acre. In the old days, shortly after the 
Revolution, there was little buying or selling of land or any 
thing else. The people manufactured their own clothing, out 
of flax and w'ool of their own raising, made shoes (few boots 
were worn) out of leather, tanned, to a great extent, by them- 
selves, out of the hides of their own cattle. They raised their 
own grain. One of the chief emplojTnents of the young women 
was spinning. Agricultural implements were few in number 
as compared with the present day. 

We must confess that as a general rule, the old people were 
not, apparently, inclined to over work themselves. Had they 
been bent in that direction the cellars of the old houses might 
have been dug deeper so that one would not have been obliged 
to stoop so much in entering them. To clear up a piece of 
forest to obtain a new field for planting, was quite an under- 
taking in the old days and an old story is still related that the 
owners of a clearing at the little falls in the Wallkill. about 
half a mile above our village, would bravely resolve, year 
after vear. to clear up another patch of forest for planting but 
that finally they would give up the undertaking and again 
"plant the Voltjc" (as the old field was called), which passed 
into a sort of proverb. 

With tlie carlv settlers game and fish formed a considerable 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 193 

part of the means of subsistence and the remains of some Yz 
a dozen ell-weirs are to be seen, in the Wallkill, between this 
village and Libertyville. 

Slavery as it existed here and at the south in the old times 
doubtless prevented the whites from exerting themselves as 
they do at the present day. In 1755 there were 80 slaves, 
above the age of 14, owned in the precinct of New Paltz and 
Solomon DuBois and Abram Hardenburgh, who were the 
largest slave owners, each owned 7 slaves. An old gentleman 
in an adjoining town tells us that his grand-father owned about 
20 slaves and that they did not do any more work than a few 
persons would do at the present day. It is related, that when 
the slaves became free in 1827 and the farmers' sons had to 
do the hard work themselves, which the slaves had formerly 
done at New Paltz, some of them died, as was thought from 
overwork, to which they had not been brought up. 

Let us picture a farm scene at New Paltz in the colonial 
days, just before the Revolution. The farmer with his sons, 
and one or two of his daughters has been in the field husking 
corn, for it is an October day and the sun is setting, as the 
farmer jogs along homeward with his load of husked corn, 
and yoke of oxen, which his negro slave is driving. On the 
way they have taken good notice whether the colts and young 
cattle were to be seen, for in those days the stock was branded 
and ran at large in the woods and particularly good care must 
be taken of the sheep for up to the time of the digging of the 
D. & H. Canal, in 1826, the wolves would come on their long, 
stealthy marches from the wilds of Sullivan and work havoc 
among the flocks in the valley of the Wallkill. But our farmer 
is unloading his corn, which is carried up the stairs to the loft 
of the dwelling, which in the olden times served as a granary, 
and night settles down on the quiet scene. 

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194 HISTORY Of MiW PALTZ 

Thi£ Poor Soil of Kettleborough 

The traditions all agree that when tlie first settlers, Ahram 
and Andries LeFevre. first located at Kettleborough. about 
1740. the gravelly soil of that locality was considered very 
poor. But a new era was brought about in Ulster county about 
the time of Revolution, when the ravages of the Hessian fly 
made wheat growing unprofitable and corn became the popular 
crop. The corn from the valley of the W'allkill was marketed 
at Capt. Swart's, on the Strand, now called Rondout. 

Clovf.r Axn Plaster the First Commercial Fertilizers 

The introduction of clover and jilaster formed a great event 
in the history of farming in this region. This must have been 
very soon after the Revolutionary war. and they were first in- 
troduced in Kettleborough. The story goes that the sons of 
Abm. LeFever one of the two pioneer brothers in that locality 
bought the plaster at the Strand (Rondout) at the extraordi- 
nary price of $30 a ton and the clover seed at Newburgh at the 
high rate of $20 a bushel. But the investment proved a good 
one. The result was marvelous. People came a distance of 
over 20 miles to see the clover. .Xndries LeFever. the ])ioneer 
of Kettleborough, then a very old man, had not ai)proved the 
large expenditure l)y his nephews in their new f angled farm- 
ing, but when he came and gazed on the clover, he said that 
"now the reproach would lie taken away from Kettleborough" 
and so it was. From that day to this Kettleborough soil has 
been considered as good as any in the county. 

Ancient Names of Clearings on the Wallkill 

At the close of the Revolutionary war very little of the upland 
in this town was cleared. The i)lace liad been settled over a 



HISTORY OF XBir PALTZ 195 

centur\ hut the wiMjchiian's ax had found no sufficient incentive 
to destroy the forests except upon the lowland, along the Wall- 
kill. One of the peculiarities of the old people was to give 
names to the small tracts of cleared land. These names w'ere 
handed down from father to son and have only died out in 
the common speech of the people during the present genera- 
tion. A very few can still tell the names of these tracts. The 
piece of lowland, just across the Wallkill from our village, on 
the left hand side from the present highway was called Pashe- 
moy. Thi.s we believe included two fields, as the fences were 
of late. The piece of lowland just across the Wallkill on the 
right was called Pashccanoe. The lot on the left of the high- 
way near Perry Deyo's was called Tri Cor. The tract on the 
other side of Tri Cor was called A I'cnycar. Where the road 
forks to go to Butterville another tract of three or four fields 
was called Ritmpaiisc. 

Vp the stream, where tlie little falls still is, a cleared field 
on the east side was called the Falls. On the east side of the 
Wallkill. a short distance above the mouth of the Plattekill an 
old clearing is still called )' on leers Hook. On the west side of 
the creek the place where Mr. Rlake now resides was called 
Poiis;lrci'aiii^hoiionk. A little farther up, the next clearing, near 
where Libcrtyville now is was called Nescatock. Still farther 
up the Wallkill the next settlement, where the Hasbroucks 
located at an early date, was called Guilford, which name it still 
bears. Going down the stream again, the lot where the Normal 
School building now is. was called by the old peoj)le Kill Bogcrt, 
or Creek Orchard. West of the Church in this village, a tract 
was called / 'cr Maucoslaudt. A tract of about 30 acres on the 
we.st side of the Wallkill near what is now the Jonas F. Atkins 
place was called by the old pco])le Iluinpho. a name still ap- 
plied to the brook, near by. .*>till farther down the stream four 



196 HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 

diflferent tracts of good land in the bends of the Wallkill were 
called Bontecoc, Klina Bontecoc, Grote Bontecoe and Bontecoe 
in Haning. Still farther down, near Mud Hook, a tract was 
called Sponza Zee, or Spanish Sea. Again farther down the 
Wallkill, about one-fourth of a mile above Perrine's Bridge, 
a tract of about ten acres of very fertile lowland is called the 
Half Moon in a document dated 1705. This tract is still known 
as the Half INIoon. It was owned by the Ean family from 
about 1705 until almost the present time. 

Racing Horses 

In the beginning of the last century fine horses were raised 
in this vicinity. These horses were, to a great extent, of 
Diomed, Durock and Messenger stock and were noted for their 
endurance as well as speed. An old gentleman, lately living 
in this village, at the age of 86, tells us that when he was a 
young man, he, with three others, raced their horses, all the 
way from this village to Perrine's Bridge and back by the 
Springtown road, a distance of over 12 miles. The Paltz 
Plains, which were in those days, unfenced and lying in com- 
mon were the favorite racing grounds for young men, and 
many were the contests of speed, especially on election day. 

Depression Among the Farmers 

The war of 181 2 was followed by a long period of great de- 
pression in farming. In an inventory taken about 1830 we 
find the highest price for a horse $80. the next highest $50, 
and a two year old colt $30. A yoke of oxen was valued at 
$40. The best cows at $15. other cows from $10 to $14. 28 
sheep and lambs were inventoried at $35. Such were the 
prices in those days. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 197 

The Implements Used by Our Forefathers 

The tools used by the farmers in the old times were black- 
smith made, or made by the farmers themselves. The plows 
used by the old people had wooden mouldboards with steel 
shares. The harrows had wooden teeth. The introduction 
of the iron mouldboard plow marked quite an era in the his- 
tory of farming, in Ulster county. But at first, this innovation 
was looked on with suspicion and the story is told that the 
farmers feared that the iron mouldboard plows would hurt 
their land. A Marbletown man tells a good story of the 
purchase of an iron mouldboard plow by a farmer and the 
interest with which its work was watched by a neighbor 
as it smoothly turned over the furrow of Marbletown low- 
land. The neighbor gazed and scratched his head, then 
exclaimed "Jakey, Jakey, do you think it will be good." 
Then continued, "Jakey. Jakey, don't you think it will hurt 
the wheat." Such was the distrust with which the iron mould- 
board plow was greeted, and coming down to our own time, we 
may note that the introduction of the mowing machine, about 
1855, was likewise viewed with apprehension, on the ground 
that it would injure the roots of the grass. 

The New Paltz Turnpike 

The New Paltz Turnpike was constructed, about 1830, and 
proved a great blessing to the farmers of the Wallkill Valley. 
Capt. Abram Elting was, at that time, and had been for some 
years previous, running a sloop from New Paltz Landing to 
New York. With the greatly improved facilities for getting 
produce to the landing as soon as the turnpike was built, the 
farmers, in all this region, became more prosperous. In those 
days flax seed was one of the chief articles, sent to New York 



198 HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 

by the farmers in this section. But the culture of flax was 
grackially abandoned. Dairying came to the front and the 
shipment of butter, calves, poultry and pork to Xew York be- 
came the leading industries with the farmers. 

The building of the D. & H. Canal in 1826 made a fine 
market for oats. The culture of wheat had been abandoned 
long before ; rye had taken its place, and rye bread was used 
altogether in farmers' families. It is within the memory of 
men now living when the first barrel of wheat flour was sold 
by a village merchant in this place. 



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CHAPTER XXI 

New Paltz Village and Town in 1820 

There were in the village in 1820 twenty dwellings, two 
stores, two hotels, two cake and beer shops, one blacksmith 
shop, one schoolhouse and one church. 

Commencing on the northern limits of the village the house 
now owned and occupied by Abm. M. Hasbrouck, was owned 
by his grandfather Jacob J. Hasbrouck. who at about this time 
gave up this house and farm to his son Maurice and moved 
to Uontecoe. where he built a jjrick house and s])ent the re- 
mainder of his days on the farm now owned by his grandson 
Luther Hasbrouck. Coming on toward the village the stone 
house of Philip D. Elting was occupied by Roelif Elting, father 
of Ezekiel and Brodhead Elting. who lived and died at Port 
Ewen. and Daniel Elting. late of Ellen ville. The parsonage 
was occupied by Dominie Bogardus. Where now is Hugue- 
not Hall stood a house, part stone and part frame, occupied 
by Jeremy Low. Just north of the churchyard, as it is at 
present, was the blacksmith shop of Mr. Kilby. father of Jas. 
and Eb. Kilby. In the northernmost of the old stone houses 
on Huguenot street Mr. Sellcck had a harness shop at about 
this time. Directly across the street in the north part of the 
present church yard stood an old stone house, owned and occu- 
pied bv Andrics DuBois. IMiis was the original LeFevre house 
and was torn down when the brick church was built. The old 
stone church then occupied the site of the present brick church, 
which was built in 1839. The stone house of Isaiah Has- 



2po JUS TORY Of NEW PALTZ 

brouck directly across the street from the church was owned 
and occupied by his grandmother "Mowche" Hasbrouck, who 
was a widow. The house next the churcliyanl on the south 
was occupied by Mrs. Lucas Van Wagenen, a widow, mother 
of Benj. \'an Wagenen and great grandmother of Easton Van 
Wagenen. She sold cake and temperance drink. The Mary 
DuBois Berry place was owned and occupied by her father 
Daniel DuBois. The old stone house directly across the street 
was owned by Ezekiel Kiting, and occupied by his son Jacob 
Kiting, who afterwards moved to Clintondale. The house of 
Abm. D. Brodhead was owned by his great-grandfather Judge 
Abram A. Deyo, and occupied by Richard liardenliergh. who 
leased the farm. His son Jacob, afterwards one of the most 
distinguished men in the state, was born in this house at about 
this time. 

A few yards farther .south, on the comer of the street, a 
shoemaker's shop and a harnessmaker's shop were located. 
There has been no building there for many years. 

Across the street the building of I\Irs. S. A. LeFevre, still 
sometimes called the "white .store." was occupied for mercantile 
purposes by Cornelius Bruyn who afterwards went to Kingston 
and was for a long time the head of the Ulster County Bank. 
His brother DuBois Bruyn was with him in the store a portion 
of the time. Josiah DuBois, grandfather of William K. DuBois, 
lived directly across the street, in what is now the Memorial 
House. In this building he had formerly kept a store with 
his father-in-law. Col. Josiah Hasbrouck. Col. Hasbrouck had 
removed to the Plattekill. Mr. DuBois had given up the mer- 
cantile business and was occujiying the building simjily as a 
dwelling. Shortly afterwards Mr. DuBois removed to Pough- 
woughtenonk and built the brick house, now occupied by Capt. 
W. H. D. Blake, where he resided until his death. Passing by 



HISTORY OF XEIV PALTZ 20a; 

the old graveyard the stone house with a brick front now owned 
by Jesse M. Elting, was occupied as a residence by Ezekiel 
Elting, grandfather of Jesse Kiting. The north room was 
used as a store. This building was erected in 1800. 

Ezekiel Elting was probal)!}- the most extensive man of busi- 
ness in this place in 1820. He carried on the mercantile busi- 
ness in this building in partnership with his brother-in-law, 
Philip Elting, and in partnership wdth another brother-in-law, 
Peter LeFevre of Bontecoe he built the grist mill at Dashville 
in which his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Brodhead, carried on busi- 
ness for a long, long time afterwards. Geo. D. Freer of Liberty- 
ville has told us that, about 1825, when he was a small boy 
and lived with his father near Perrine's Bridge, he would drive 
the cows to pasture on a lot which his father owned a short dis- 
tance north of the Simon LeFevre farm. Sometimes he would 
see Ezekiel Elting, then an old man, going with his team of 
gray horses from his residence at New Paltz to the mill at 
Dashville. He would take grain sometimes for the farmers 
to accommodate them and occasionally would deliver the flour, 
when on his return. 

Across the street, lived a i\Ir. Jackson who employed two or 
three men in the business of making hats in a shop a little 
nearer the Wallkill. The Academy was not built until about 
13 years afterwards. Just below the Academy grounds were 
the remains of the old bridge across the ^^'allkill. but at that 
time a scow was the only means of transportation across the 
stream. Not long afterwards the bridge was erected at its 
present location. Passing on to the locust grove, near the pres- 
ent bridge. Dr. Jacob Wurts lived in the house torn down about 
1875. The next house farther south was that in which the 
Wurts family lately lived, which was occupied by tenants. 

Going on still south there was no house until the Plains were 



202 HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 

reached. Tliere Nathaniel Lel*'evre Hved in the stone house 
torn down about 1885 by A. \'. X. Elting. The Plains were 
all un fenced, 1> ing in commons. 

Coming back to the village Main street was not yet laid out. 
People crossing the Wallkill came around by the "white store" 
and up North Front street. The hotel property, corner of 
North Front and Chestnut streets, was occupied then and for a 
long time before antl afterwards as a hotel by Samuel lludd, 
who likewise carried on the wagon making business. About 
1858 this old building was replaced by the present structure. 
Chestnut street was not laid out until many years afterwards, 
when Solomon Flting, father of A. \'. N. Elting. bought the 
"scaup tcay." sheep pasture, and laid out the present street, 
and also the street that divides the property of J. J. Hasbrouck 
and Abner DuBois. 

The old stone building now occupied by John Drake as a 
residence, was a school building then, as it continued to be until 
a recent date. The school at that time was taught by Moses 
Dewitt, father of D. M. Dewitt of Kingston. About the same 
time Burr Dewitt, a brother of Moses, also presided as a peda- 
gogue and taught the young idea how to shoot. Adjoining the 
school house on the east. "Cookey John" ]>eer lived in the house 
torn down about 1880. "Cookey John" sold cakes, cider, etc. 
On the other side of the street was a frame tenant house. 

Passing up the street where Mrs. Oscar C. Hasbrouck now 
lives, Jacob Tcrwilliger. an uncle of Nelson, resided. He 
afterwards moved to Ohio. There was no other building in 
this part of the village except what is now the Steen hotel 
property- Here a hotel was kept by Angevine Latten. Mr. 
Latten or his wife owned the land in the vicinity of the Hugue- 
not Bank. Where Elias Coe's tenant house now stands in the 
rear of the trolley dej)ot were several tall hickory trees. 



HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 203 

Springtown in 1820 

In 1820 Sprint^town was about as much of a village as New 
Paltz, each numbering about 20 houses. In those clays the 
main thoroughfare from north to south ran through Spring- 
town and this gave it great advantage over New Paltz. The 
stage line, which before the day of railroads, was a very impor- 
tant interest, ran on the west side of the Wallkill and stopped 
at Springtown. Here lived Judge Jonathan DuBois, who was 
county judge in 1821 and pr<»l)al)l\' the most prominent man in 
the town at the time. At Springtown there was a scow and 
directly across the Wallkill, perhaps 100 yards from the rail- 
road bridge, was a tannery carried on by Wm. McDonald. 
From this a road ran eastward and intersected tlie Middletown 
road near the Ean residence. About 1820 Ulster county 

had an agricultural society, of which DeWitt, of 

Rochester, was President, and at least one fair was held at 
Springtown. 

In those days many droves of cattle and sheep and some 
horses would come from the north and the region about Lake 
Champlain and would pass through Springtown on their way 
to the Xew York or Philadelphia market. There was no ferry 
at Kingston or Poughkeepsie large enough to take droves of 
cattle across the river. The Poughkeepsie ferryboat was so 
small that a farmer going to that place had to unhitch his 
horses from the wagon. When the wind was not favorable 
the ferryman had to depend on his oars for motive power. This 
was before the (la\s of the horse l)oat. 

lUit to return to Springtown. Of course the numerous 
droves of stc^k made considerable business for the people along 
the line, in feeding man and beast. Accordingly we find no 
less than six houses of eiUcrtainment or taverns, between New 



204 HISTORY OF NEir PALTZ 

Paltz and Rosendale, by the Sprinj^town road, as follows : 
Frederick Stokes at what is now the Beaver place, Roelif Has- 
brouck, Ezekiel Low and Abni. Traphagan, in Springtown ; 
Abm. DuBois in the old stone house about two miles north of 
Si)ringtown and Wm. Delamater at this end of the Rosendale 
Plains. From this to Rosendale there were no houses. 

Houses North of Our Village in 1820 

Going north from the present corporate bounds of our vil- 
lage the first place was that of Philip Elting, who owned the 
place now the residence of his grandson Sol. L. F. Elting. 
Philip Elting was a man of extensive means and beside farm- 
ing carried on the mercantile business in this village in partner- 
ship with Ezekiel Elting, who was his double brother-in-law, 
each having married the other's sister. The next place on the 
present highway was that of Elias Freer, who left a numerous 
family of children, the last survivor of whom in this vicinity 
was Peter W. A. Freer. Elias' father Jonas lived on the 
eastern end of the same tract at Shivertown. in a stone house, 
occupied in our day by his grandson Stephen Freer. Next to 
the Elias Freer place came the farm of Joseph DuBois, after- 
ward the Moses P. LeFevre farm. Next on the north came 
the brick house now owned by the Terpenings. This is by 
far the oldest brick liouse in the town. It was built in 1786 
by Josiah Elting, brother of Philip, and in 1820 was occupied 
by Abm. J. Elting. son of Josiah. Near the house stood a 
saw mill, which was taken down about 1870. Going on to the 
north we come next to the Ean place, still owiied in the family. 
The old stone house, still occupied as a residence, has on its 
corner stone the initials E. E. (Elias Ean) and R. H. B. (Roelif 
Hasbrouck) also the date of building. 1789. From Elias Ean, 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 205 

senior, the farm descended to his son Ehas and then to James 
Ean. A curious feature of this place was the large stone oven, 
6 or 8 feet square, which stood on a rock, directly across the 
street from the house, and which was taken down some years 
ago. When the bread was ready for baking it had to be taken 
across the street to this oven. 

From the Ean place a road ran westward to the McDonald 
tannery and the scow ferry at Springtown. Nearly half way 
on this road was the old stone house of Solomon Hasbrouck, 
son of Abraham the Patentee. From Solomon the place 
passed to his son John, then to John's son John and finally 
became the property of the Eltings, who owned the farm ad- 
joining. Charles Elting, brother of Abram J., occupied this 
old stone house in 1820, but afterwards built a frame house 
where his grandson Watson has lived of late. The old stone 
house tumbled into ruins about i860. Near by is an old barn 
and a large graveyard in which a large number of the Middle- 
town people of those days were buried. A little farther north 
stands a stone house with slate vooi, built not long before the 
Revolution for Petrus Hasbrouck and afterwards occupied by 
his son Samuel. This was in 1820 the home of W^m. W. Deyo, 
whom the writer best remembers as superintendent of the Mid- 
dletown Sunday school, thirty years later. Returning to the 
present highway, 'Squire Philip Hasbrouck had a blacksmith 
shop about 1820, which continued in use until about 1855. 
The old Middletown school house, replaced by the present 
structure about 1855. was a small, unpainted frame building, 
a little north of the i)resent location. The house just south 
of the school house was owned a short time previous to 1820 
by Elias Bevier. whose wife was the daughter of Petrus Le- 
Fevre of Bontecoe. They moved west. 

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his father-in-law John W'aldron, hved Lawrence Hood, the 
ancestor of the Hood family. He died before his father-in- 
law, leaviiii; two sons. John and Isaac. The farm passed from 
Johti Mood to his son Jesse, wiiose son lately owned it. Isaac 
owned the farm a short distance north. 

BoXTECOE IN 1820 

Bontecoe has not chang^ed so much since 1820 as some other 
parts of the town. .\t that time there were a miniher of Freers 
located on the northern bounds of the Paltz patent on both 
sides of the Wallkill. A little farther south were several mem- 
l>ers of the Deyo family, descendants of Hendricus Deyo. The 
southernmost of these famis was that of William Deyo. Next 
came the LeFevre tract. Grandfather Peter LeFevre occu- 
pied the old stone house still standing^, which had come (o 
him from his father Daniel. I'esides carryinfj on the farming 
business, g^rand father was a justice of the peace and was 
usually called 'Squire. The office was of considerably more 
importance than at the jiresent day. Besides trying: many im- 
portant cases he performed duties now restricted to lawyers, 
such as the drawings up of wills. There was no lawyer in 
Xew I'altz initil about 1870. 

The next t^ld stone house, also still standins^. was that of 
grandfather's cousin. Major Isaac LeFe%Te. who built the house 
and resided in it for some time, but removed to Esopus at 
about this date. He was a noted surveyor and about all the 
work in that line in this jiart of the country was done by him. 
Next to the LeFevre tract catne the I'an fann, then owned by 
Peter Ean. Crossing Bontecoe kill, there was a school house 
on top of the hill at about this date. 



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2o8 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

LiBERTVNILLE IN 182O 

In 1820 and until a much later date Libertyville was known 
by its old Indian name, Nescatock. Here Chas. DuBois long 
carried on the milling business and was a prominent man. Ai 
that time there were about as many people in the Libertyville 
neighborhood as at present and nearly all were DuBoises — 
descendants of the two brothers, Solomon and Louis. Jr., the 
original settlers there. 

The mill at Libertyville was probably the first running by 
water power, in this portion of Lister county, except the one 
in the ]\lill brook north of our village. Still there was not 
much difference in the date of the erection of the Libertyville 
mill and the one at Tuthill. The Libertyville mill was built 
before 1790, by Nathaniel DuBois, who was a bachelor, and 
from him it passed to his nephew Charles. The mill-house 
was rebuilt in 1804. At first there was no dam across the 
stream, but after the draining of the Drowned Lands, in 
Orange county the water in the stream got so low. in summer, 
that a dam had to be built. Nearly all the Paltz farmers 
brought their grain to the Libertyville mill and would some- 
times wait for it to be ground, sitting, in cold weather, by the 
blazing fire in the cellar kitchen, eating apples and drinking 
cider. 

Ohioville in 1820 

The New Paltz turnpike was not constructed until about a 
dozen years after this time. Going east from our village in 
1820, the first house was that of Dr. Bogardus. where Jona- 
than Deyo now lives. Directly across the street lived John 
Terwillegar. Simon Rose, grandfather of Daniel Rose of this 
village, occupied the stone house now the home of Jacob 



HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 209 

Champlin. A little further on the farm house, in which 
Levi \\>i£::ht long^ resided, was occupied by Jacob Halstead 
and an old man named Van Aken, who wore knee breeches. 
Where Milton B. Hasbrouck now resides was a house and 
blacksmith shop where John DeGroodt carried on business. 
Just this side of Ohioville a hotel was kept by Henry Cronk. 
Ohioville in those old days was called H — 1 town, a name 
which stuck to the place until Moses Freer came back from 
Ohio and called it Ohioville. 

Houses South of Our Village in 1820 

Passing on to the south from the present corporate limits 
of our village we have noted the old LeFevre house, built by 
Jean, son of Simon the Patentee, torn down about 1880. The 
next house in 1820 was that of Andries Deyo, now the Sprague 
place. This house was built in Revolutionary times by Andries 
Deyo's father, Philip. Andries had a large family of sons 
and daughters, of whom Solomon Deyo of this village is the 
only survivor. 

Next to the Andries Deyo farm came the Edmund Eltinge 
farm of our day, which was owned in 1820 by Edmund's 
father, Peter Eltinge, who in 1826 built the present fine brick 
residence to take the place of the old stone house, which had 
burned down. The place came to Peter Eltinge from his 
father-in-law, Gen. Derick Wynkoop, who died about 1820. 

Going on to the south there comes next the Cornelius Du- 
Bois, senior, tract of land, which requires some explanation. 
Cornelius DuBois. senior, of Poughwoughtenonk. son of Solo- 
mon, had left a landed estate of about 3.000 acres, lying on 
both sides of the Wallkill. and he had left a most singular will 
providing that his son, Cornelius, junior, should have the entire 



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real estate during his life time, but tliat after his death his 
other children or their heirs should have their proper share. 
Cornelius' estate includeil on the east of the Wallkill the tract 
now coniprisinjj the farms of Lewis H. Woolsey. Win. F. Du- 
Bois, Solomon DuBois and C. L. \ an ( )rden. Cornelius, 
senior, had a larije family of dau<.jhters. When, after the 
death of Cornelius, junior, the division of the property was 
made, what is now the Woolsey farm fell to the share of the 
daughter Sarah. wln> had married Jacob Hasbrouck of Mar- 
bletown. The Hasbroucks sold the place to a man nametl 
Peltz. who sold, it to Elijah Wix^lsey. about 1825. at the rate 
of about ^22 an acre. 

The farm now owned by Wm. I-". Dul'.ois was also a part 
of the Cornelius DuBois estate and passed in the division to 
the share of a daughter Catharine (in Dutch Tryntje), who 
had married Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck of Xewburgh. It 
passed from her to her daughter Rachel, who married her 
cousin Daniel, son of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston, 
and located at Wallkill, Orange county. Jonas DuBois, grand- 
father of the present owner, bought of Daniel Hasbrouck and 
wife of Orange county, in 1830, 102 acres, constituting most of 
the ])resent farm. The place was all in woods with no build- 
ings and the price paid was $2,000 for 102 acres. 

What is now the Solomon DuBois farm, 160 acres, in the 
division of the Cornelius DuP)ois estate fell to the share of the 
daughter Jemima, who had married Andries Bevier of W^a- 
warsing. Jacob (i. DuBois ])urchased it of the Beviers about 
1829, paying about $20 an acre. There was a house on the 
place occupied by Joachim Schoonmaker. 

The next fann, now owned by C. L. \ an ( )rden. has had a 
singular history from the fact that it has ])assc'd in each gen- 
eration for a century from one family to another in the female 



UISTOKY OF \ E\V PALTZ 211 

line and three of its owners were named L.eali. In the (hvision 
of the property of Cornehus DuBois, senior, this tract fell to 
the share of his daughter Leah, who had married Cornelius 
Wynkoop of Hurley. It passed to their daughter Leah, who 
married Dr. Dewitt of Rochester. Dr. Dewitt's daughter Jane 
married Ilenr\ I lornheck, also of Rochester, and they came to 
live on the ])lace. in the next generation it became the prop- 
erty of their daughter Leah, who married Alfred Deyo. About 
1830 Henry Hornbeck built the house, wdiich at the time was 
considered the finest residence between Goshen and Xew Paltz. 

We have come now on the Kettelboro road to the LeFevre 
tract of 1,000 acres, originally a part of the Garland patent. 
The old stone house now owned and occupied by Nathaniel 
Deyo, was the residence in 1820 of Noah LeFevre, grand- 
father of Josiah LeFevre of this village. It came to Noah 
from his father Abraham, and it passed from Xoah to his son 
Jonas. 

What is now the Jansen Hasbrouck place was in 1820 occu- 
pied by John LeFevre, son of the pioneer Abraham. It passed 
from John to his son Matthew and then to Matthew's son John 
M., who is now living at Peekskill with his son Matthew J. 

The next farm, now owned by J. Kiting LeFevre of High- 
land, was owned in 1820 by his great-grandfather, 'Squire 
Johannes LeFevre, who l)uilt the present large frame house 
about 1816, intending it for his son, Andries J. The latter 
died in 18 17 and 'S(|uire Johannes moved into the house him- 
self, where he lived until his death, about 1840. The farm 
afterwards became the proj)crty of .\ndries J.'s son, Cornelius 
D., from whom it passed \.o the ])resent owner. 

The next farm was owned in 1820 by Jacobus LeFevre, a 
nephew of 'Squire Johannes. Jacobus built. al)out 181 5, the 
frame house still standing. After Jacobus' dealii the farm was 



212 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

sold to divide his estate and became the property of Garret 
LeFevre and subsequently of John H. Wurts. 

Next comes the farm, now owned by Albert Decker, which 
was owned in 1820 by Lewis LeFevre, a brother of Jacobus 
above mentioned. The house burned down about 1838 and 
was replaced by the present residence. 

We have come now to the Deyo tract of 500 acres, which 
like the LeFevre tract was a portion of the Jas. Garland patent. 
The Daniel Bevier farm of our day was owned in 1820 by 
Daniel A. Deyo, father of Thomas J. Deyo of Wallkill. 

Next comes the old stone house of Daniel Deyo, who was 
the ancestor of the Deyo family in this neighborhood. This 
house was occupied in 1820 by Jonathan, father of Dr. Abm. 
Deyo. 

We have now come to Ireland Corners and to the southern 
boundary of the town of New Paltz as it was before the town 
of Gardiner was created. 

BUTTERVILLE IN 182O 

The neighborhood, now known as Butterville, about two 
miles west of this village, was not settled until about 1812. 
The old Dutch name of the locality was "Oleyuuit" (Butter- 
nut), and was doubtless bestowed on account of the number 
of butternut trees in that region. Afterwards, on account of 
the number of members of the Society of Friends who settled 
in that region, it was called "The Quaker Neighborhood." 
The name, Butterville was given to the locality by S. D. B. 
Stokes in selecting a name for the Sunday school which he 
and others had organized in that locality. 

One of the first settlers in this region was Abram Steen, 
the father of our informant, Peter Steen. He was the son of 
Michael Steen, who emigrated from Holland and settled near 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 213 

the Svvartekill, in Esopus. Michael's sons were Jacob, Abram, 
Matthew and Thomas. Abram was the only one of these who 
located permanently in this vicinity. He married a Freer from 
Bontecoe and purchased the land on which he located at But- 
terville of Major Isaac LeFevre. At that time the country 
all the way over the mountains to the Philip Ayres place, near 
the Clove, was in woods. 

At about the same time that Abm. Steen built his house a 
number of the Society of Friends located in the neighborhood. 
Mr. Peter Steen's recollections of these neighbors, as they were 
about 1820, were as follows: 

Rowland DeGarmo, father of Wm. H. DeGarmo, late of 
Rondout, came from Dutchess county and located where Henry 
Vanderlyn afterwards lived. Here he long carried on the tan- 
ning business on quite an extensive scale. Merritt Moore, who 
afterwards moved to Poughkeepsie, lived on what was after- 
wards the S. D. B. Stokes place. Next came the houses of 
Isaac and David Sutton, who were brothers and also came 
from Dutchess county. Matthew DuBois lately lived on the 
place of Isaac and Mr. Holmes on the place of David Sutton. 
Isaac was the father of Isaac S. and Henry P. ; David was the 
grandfather of Thomas Sutton of this village. 

Gideon Mullenix came from Dutchess county, we believe. 
His house was the only one of stone. He resided where Tim- 
othy Benjamin lived of late. Wm. Minard came from Esopus. 
He lived on the clay hill, in a house torn down about 1845. 
Benj. Wood lived near Liberty ville, on a place owned of late 
by Daniel I. Hasbrouck. Increase Green lived on the place 
lately occupied by Samuel A. DuBois. David Dickinson was 
another of the early settlers and lived in a log house. 

Under Bontecoe Point lived Abel A. Ayers. where his father, 
Thomas, lived before him on a tract purchased of the Beviers 



214 III STORY OF XEir PALTZ 

in 1808 and here Abel's son. Thomas, afterwards Hved. Benj. 
Roberts, father of the late William B. of Clintondale, lived on 
the other side of the mountain, just above the Clove. 

DeGarmo, the Sutton brothers, Moore, Mullenix, Minard, 
Wood, Dickinson, Green, Ayres and Roberts were all Friends. 

James Pine came some time after the first settlement from 
Honk Hill. He was also a Friend. 

There was no school house at Butterville until alxnit 1830. 
Before that time. Mr. Steen tells us. his brothers went all the 
way to a private school on the other side of the mountain where 
Philip Ayres of late lived. 

About 1825 the road was laid out across the mountain from 
Butterville to Wessel lirodhead's near Alli<T^erville. The state 
road was laid out from Peter D. LeFever's through Canaan 
to be out of the reach of high water in the W'allkill. It went 
through Butterville to Libertyville. 

Abm. Steen. the father of our informant, carried on the 
nursery business quite extensively about 1830. He raised 
his own stock of apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry trees. 
At first he supplied only the neighbors, but there were few 
nurseries at that time and as its fame spread he supplied 
trees to parties in Orange. Sullivan and Dutchess as well 
as in Ulster counties. Once a customer came all the way 
from the Shaker commuity. near Albany, and took a large 
load of trees. Peter Steen did a great portion of the graft- 
ing for his father. About i860 the nursery business was 
discontinued. 

The Friends' meeting house, at liutterville was built 
about 1820. Besides those in the neighborhood, a family 
named Ballon would come all the way from Greenfield in 
Wawarsing to attend the meetings. The land on which 
the meeting house was built was given for the purpose by 



JUSJUKV UP' Mill' PALTZ 215. 

Gideon Birdsall of Plattekill Valley. Abel Ayres was the 
only person residing in the neighborhood who frequently 
spoke in meetings. Speakers would come from other places. 
The division between I lie Orthodox and Hicksite parties 
made considerable feeling in the meeting. 

All the people in the neighborhood were Friends except 
Abram Steen, Jonas Freer, Martinas Freer and a few others. 

Plutarch in 1820 

In all the Plutarch neighborhood there were only two 
clearings in 1820. One of these was the home of Abm. J. 
Deyo. whose stone house, built in 1812, was quite certainly 
the last stone house built in New Paltz. 

This section of our town was called by the old people 
Grawhow ( in English ( Ireat Kidge ) , a name by which it is 
still sometimes called. 

Industries in This Town in 1820 

Northeast of our village at about that time Isaac DuBois, 
grandfather of Isaac DuP)ois of Ohioville, had a grist mill 
where \\'m. E. DuP.ois now lives. This mill of Isaac Du- 
Bois did but a small business, there being insufficient water. 

In the old times hats were not all made in large factories 
as at ])rescnt. but in smaller quantities. A man named 
Jackson carried on the hatting ^nisiness for a time, in a shop 
across the street from the old graveyard, and had three or 
four men working for him. .\fter a while he failed. Samuel 
Hasbronck's oldest brother carried on the hatting business 
at Highland. At one time a man named Kellogg carried on 
the hatting business, about a mile north of the village. 

At Rifton there was a carding and fulling mill, about 1810, 
before the grist mill was built at Dashville. Farmers would 



2i6 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

bring their wool tlicre to have it carded and then their wives 
and daughters would weave and spin it. Some women 
would go from house to house as spinsters. 

In those old days some farmers would tan their own sole 
leather, but the upper leather was manufactured at the tan- 
nery. About 1812 \\\w. McDonald, a Scotchman, had a tan- 
nery and residence on the east side of the W'allkill, about 
200 yards below the present railroad bridge at Springtown. 
A millstone still marks the site, but the buildings have dis- 
appeared and the land passed into the possession of Roelif 
Hasbrouck and subseqtiently of Charles Eltinge. McDon- 
ald's wife was a Krom, from Marbletown. After a while 
he sold the tannery and located just south of Perry Deyo's 
residence, on the road to Libertyvillc. where he built a 
house. 

About 181 5 Rowdand DeGarmo, father of Wm. H. De- 
Garmo, came from Dutchess county and settled at Butter- 
ville, where he started a tannery and carried on an extensive 
business. In those days oak bark was used exclusively for 
tanning. He would send around his teams to the farmers 
at butchering time and gather up hides, which lie would 
tan on shares. 

In those days John Hait, father of Thad Hait, carried on 
the tanning business in Plattekill. There was a tannery at 
Centerville, and another wdiich carried on a large business 
at the lower toll-gate on the Turnpike. Xow there is not a 
tannery in Southern Ulster. 

Teachers About 1820 and Earlier 

W'e have found among the old papers information concern- 
ing only one schoolmaster < luring the Dutch-speaking period 
in New Paltz. that is from about 1750 to 1800. This was 



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Joseph Coddingtoii, who was probably the ancestor of the 
Coddiiigton family in L'lsler county, though we have no infor- 
mation on that point. Joseph Coddington's name first appears 
on the church book in i75cS. when he and his wife, Catharine 
\'andemark, had a child, Sarah, baptized. At different dates 
the baptism of other children are recorded. When the second 
stone church was built in 1771 Joseph Coddington performed 
a great amount of clerical work, every item of which is set 
down minutel\- in the church book and for which he charged 
£12 19s. In a document dated 1781 Jonathan LeFevre, grand- 
father of Hon. Jacob LeFevre, and his brother John leased for 
ten years to Joseph Coddington, schoolmaster, without any rent 
except payment of taxes, lots No. 15 and 199, being a portion 
of the 1,529 acres granted b\- letters patent to Noah Eltinge 
and Nathaniel LeFevre and being within the neighborhood 
annexed to New Paltz. Mr. Coddington was at that time be- 
coming advanced in years and had probably concluded to give 
up his school, which must have been in the old stone building, 
now the John Drake residence, and end his days as a farmer. 
We have no further information concerning Joseph Codding- 
ton, nor have we any information concerning teachers at New 
Paltz in the period succeeding the Revolutionary War. 

Alexander Doag 

One of the most noted teachers in the Kettleborough neigh- 
borhood and elsewhere in southern Ulster in the early part 
of the last century was Alexander Doag. He was a Scotchman, 
educated at the University of Edinburgh and taught at Kettle- 
borough for a considerable period, about 181 5. Although a 
man of fine education he was a slave of the drink habit. Each 
niorninc-, on arrivini'- at the schoolhouse he would take a drink 



2i8 U I STORY or XEir PALTZ 

from a bottle in his desk. In his latter years tDrtune frowned 
ui)on him and he ended his days in our county poorhouse. 

GiLHEkT C. Rice 

A man of different type from Alexander Doag. at least so 
far as his habits was concerned, was Gilbert Cuthbert Rice, a 
younj^ Irishman, who tautjlit in different schools in this vicinity 
at about the same time as Doaii^. Rice was onI\ about sixteen 
years of ajj^e when he commenced teachinjLj: in the Bontecoe 
neiji^hborhood. He was a youth of g^reat energ^y and detemiina- 
tion. and. althoug;h his severity in school would not be tolerated 
at the present day. yet after teachinj^ at Bontecoe he taught at 
Kettleborough and. perhaps, elsewhere in this part of the coun- 
try. He was a Catholic in religion, but that did not prevent 
him from attending Protestant church service. 

Miss Ransom i: 

One of the first lady teachers in this part of the country was 
!Miss Ransome. who taught the Kcttlcborough .school for a 
long period, about 1825. .Afterwards she married Henry G. 
DuBois and removed to ( )hio. She was a lady of great tact 
and was greatly liked l)y the chiMreii and ])arents. She taught 
the girls to work embroidery as well as to understand the mys- 
teries of arithmetic, geography, etc. The mother of the editor 
of the I)nicf>cniicnt had a sampler, which she worked when a 
little girl at school inider Miss Ran.some's guidance, and which 
a grand<laughter now cherishes among her treasures. Very 
well. too. do we remember mother's advice when we started 
out as a lad of sixteen to teach a country scIkxiI, that we slumld 
imitate Miss Ransome's method of governing a school, by judi- 
cious praise, which was indeed in striking contrast with the 
severity of her predecessor. Mr. Rice. 



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HISTORY OF THE OLD FA^HLIES OF 
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CHAPTER XXII 

The Family of Louis Benieu, thi-: Patkntee 
By Louis Bevier of Marbletown 

A\'hon in 1628 the last of the Huguenot strongholds was 
taken by Richelieu, the Minister of Louis XIII, and some 
of the disheartened leaders in the Huguenot ranks abjured 
their faith and reentered the Church of Rome, the outlook 
of Protestantism seemed dark and gloomy indeed. 

But the mass of the Huguenots still held fast the doctrine 
of the Reformation until the oppression and exactions of an 
unfriendly and unscrupulous government became unendur- 
able. Then those in the northern provinces of France took 
refuge in the adjoining Protestant lands. 

Thus it came to pass that the Walloons escaped from their 
oppressors to the Palatinate. This movement began as 
early as 1640 and continued until 1670, and even later, and 
it was during this period that many of those Huguenots, 
who afterwards settled at New Paltz. found a tempi Mary 
home in the Palatinate. 

Thev all seem to have applied themselves to those indus- 
trial pursuits to which they had been accustomed at home, 
and thus became a \aluable element among the peo])le with 
whom they were sojourning. 

In the Palatinate at the folk>wing dates, were: 

Louis DulWjis and family, H)59. at Manheim. 
Jean Hasbrock and family. 1672, at Manheim. 



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Christian Deyo and family, 1675, ^-^ Mutterstadt. 
Abm. Hasbrouck (probably), 1675, (his wife born at Mut- 
terstadt). 

Louis Bevier and wife, 1675, at Frankenthal. 
Simon and Andre Lefevre, (probably) at Manheim. 
Anthony Crispell, (probably) 1660. 

The names in the above list with those of Hugo Freer, 
Abraham and Isaac DuBois and Pierre Deyo make up the 
twelve "Patentees," and it is reasonably certain that all of 
them were in the Palatinate just before their departure for 
Wiltwyck. It is certain that all of them were in Wiltwyck 
when, under the leadership of Louis DuBois, they secured 
the Patent from Gov. Andros in 1677. 

In 1678 these men with their families proceeded to occupy 
the land and to build shelters for their families upon it on 
the site of the village, which, by general consent, they now 
named New Paltz, in fond remembrance of their first place 
of rest in exile from their native land. 

Now the task of clearing and improving the land was be- 
gun, while title was held in common, no general division 
being made until 1703. The fact that no serious misunder- 
standing arose during nearly a quarter of a century of such 
joint occupancy should redound to the credit of this amicable 
and peace-loving community. 

These settlers soon organized a French church at New 
Paltz in 1683. with Louis DuBois as elder and Hugo Freer 
as deacon, and having Dr. Daille as minister until 1696. 

After a time they enjoyed the pastoral care of the min- 
isters of the Reformed Dutch church of Kingston. 

Louis Bevier. one of the twelve patentees named above, 
was born at Lille about 1648. In early manhood he cm- 
braced the doctrines of the Reformation, and, with his 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 225 

ardent temperament, he soon drew down upon himself so 
much opposition, and eventually persecution, that he could 
no longer remain in safety at home, so, with some Hugue- 
not friends, he took refuge in the Palatinate, and settled 
near Frankenthal, in which vicinity he remained until 1675. 
In the meanwhile he connected himself with a Protestant 
church of that place, and in 1673 he married Marie Le Blanc, 
a member of a family of Huguenot refugees from his native 
place. 

In 1675, being desirous to emigrate to New York in order 
to rejoin his friends and relatives who had preceded him, 
he obtained from the pastor of the church in Frankenthal a 
certificate stating that he and his wife were members in 
good and regular standing, and commending them to other 
churches of like faith. 

Dated. Frankenthal, March 5, 1675. 

H. Lucasse, Pastor. 

William Gosse, 
Andre Le Blanc, 
Witnesses. 

The descendants of almost all of these Paltz Huguenot 
families have similar certificates still in their possession. 

After coming to New York Louis Bevier remained with 
relatives until 1677, when he united with the other patentees 
in purchasing from the Indians the land for which they 
afterward obtained the Patent. 

From the spring of 1678 he, with his fellow Patentees, 
remained here without any marked change for many years, 
and his children were born and reared in the faith of their 
parents, all of them being active in the maintenance of the 

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Protestant cluirch, first in New Paltz and later in the several 
comnuinities where they afterward settled. 

In 1710, his wife being dead, Louis Bevier proceeded to 
London and procured his "Denization" papers qualifying 
him as an English citizen. He then went to France where, 
as tradition reports, he met with a rough reception, but, not- 
withstanding this, it is highly probable that his business 
was in part satisfactorily adjusted and that he recovered at 
least some of his property. 

Coming home again to New Paltz he bought lands in 
Wawarsing upon which his sons Jean and Abraham set- 
tled, and he likewise bought the land at Marbletown upon 
which his son Louis settled in 1715. 

Meanwhile his son Samuel occupied his lands at New 
Paltz, where he himself remained in his declining years, 
his other son, Andries, being in some manner disabled, re- 
mained with him, and his only living daughter was married 
to Jacob Hasbrouck, and settled at New Paltz. 

Realizing that his end was near, on May 2, 1720, he dis- 
posed of all his real and personal estate by will, dividing 
it equally among his six children, deferring only so far to 
the custom of the times as to give to Jean one pound extra 
for his birthright. 

A short time after this he died and was buried at New 
Paltz; his will was admitted to probate July 4, 1720. 

Louis Bevier's children were : 

1. Maria, born July 9, 1674, died in infancy. 

2. Jean, bom Jan. 2, 1676, married Catharine Montanye. 

3. Abraham, born Jan. 20. 1678, married Rachel Vernooy. 

4. Samuel, born Jan. 21, 1680, married Magdalcna Blanshan. 
3. Andries. born July 12, 1682. single, died 1768. 

6. Louis, born Nov. 6, 1684. married Elizabeth Hasbrouck. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 227 

7. Esther, born Nov. 16, 1686, married Jacob Hasbrouck. 

8. Solomon, born July 12, 1689, died in infancy. 

The names of the children, with the dates of their birth, 
are found in the original record as made in French appar- 
ently by Louis Bevier himself on a fly-leaf of an old folio 
Bible still in our possession. 

Jel\n Bevier 

Two of the daughters of Jean Bevier perished with their 
families in the attack on the settlement at Fantinekill, made 
by the Indians under Brandt in 1779. These were Eliza- 
beth, who had married her cousin, Isaac Bevier, son of Sam- 
uel, and Johannah, the wife of Michael Sax. The surviving 
descendants of Jean Bevier afterwards removed to the west. 

Some years ago, in digging down the foundation of the 
old Bevier house near Napanoch, the fragments of a boy's 
diary were found in a recess which formed part of the chim- 
ney. These records were written by Cornelius, a son of 
Captain Andries Bevier, nephew of the murdered women. 
The translation is given below as it was sent to me : 

"Went to Warwarsing with a load of rye to mill for 
father. Stopped at the tavern, took a drink and got some 
tobacco. Some of Captain Cortland's soldiers were there 
and drinking hard ; some got drunk and they had to take 
their guns away ; two of them tackled Tewn Osterhoudt 
because he wouldn't treat, but they were so drunk he 
throwed both of them and choked one of them pretty badly. 

"Went to the fort with some potatoes. Sam went with 
me. Heard that Indian tracks had been seen above Honk 
Falls. Coon Bevier said he could overturn any living In- 
dian, and hoped they would try and catch him. 



228 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

"All woke up by guns. Heard them shoot towards Fan- 
tinekill. After breakfast saw smoke that way, like a build- 
ing. Heard there were Indians. Jesse's dog came down 
here, and after a while Captain Cortland's soldiers came up 
and father went with them, with all the men toward Fan- 
tinekill and left us all alone. We heard them shoot after 
they had been gone about an hour and we heard the Indians 
yell, and then we all started for the mountain. Sam and I 
took the silver mugs, the spoons and some money, and 
started for the mountain. More than twenty people came 
with us because we knew the path over, and they all car- 
ried their best things with them. We stopped by the 
spring and looked down, and saw the fire at ]\Iike Sock's 
and heard them shoot at Jesse's. Black Bob came up to us 
on the path. He said he had run from the Fantinekill, and 
that the Indians had killed them all. We all started on foot 
as we could go, and went along the mountain to Maratanza 
Pond, and then hid all the silver and other things we could 
in the sand, and then Sam and I went over to the home of 
Mentz and rested. Mrs. Mentz gave us some milk. They 
were all scared. When we got to the pond, we went to the 
edge of the rocks and looked again. All the fire was out 
except John Bodley's house, which smoked yet ; we thought 
we could hear some shooting, but not sure. We went over 
to Shawangunk and told the people. Sam and I were bare- 
footed and outran most of the others until I hurt my foot 
in the burnt wood above Napanoch and it made me lame. 
In the night some of our folks came over ; and said that 
the Indians had gone, and that some of the people were lost 
in the mountains. 

"I went back over the nKMintain and rode part of the way 
on a horse, as mv foot was lame. We went down to Fan- 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 229 

tinekill and found the houses burned except Jesse Bevier's, 
which was partly burned, but the soldiers drove the In- 
dians off. 

"They had killed all Mike Sock's family before the sol- 
diers came. It looked terrible around there." 

Abraham Bevier 

Some of the descendants of Abraham Bevier have re- 
mained in Wawarsing to the present day, represented in 
the fourth generation by Andries, who was a captain of 
militia and prominent in the business of the town ; and by 
Conrad, who also served in the militia and was a member 
of the Legislature in 1777. In the fifth generation Dr. 
Benjamin R. Bevier was a widely-known physician of Na- 
panoch and he is followed by his son. Dr. Benjamin Rush 
Bevier. Other descendants of Abraham removed to neigh- 
boring towns, and to various points in the west and south. 

One of his grandsons went to New Paltz, another to 
Shawangunk. while still another removed to Oil Creek, 
Penn. In the fifth generation the family was still more 
widely scattered, five sons of Captain Andries Bevier re- 
moved to Owasco, N. Y., and his daughter Rachel married 
Henry J. Brinkerhoff of Mansfield, Ohio, and is the grand- 
mother of Gen. Roelif Brinkerhoff. One of the sons, Abra- 
ham J. Bevier, removed to Stark county. 111., another to 
Fairfax, Va. Johannes, the son of Cornelius, went to wes- 
tern New York and his children later removed to Wiscon- 
sin and Illinois. 

In the sixth generation we find Dr. Matthew Bevier of 
Owasco, Richard Brodhead Bevier of Gardiner, Abraham A. 
Bevier of Napanoch, Rev. Johannes Hornbeck Bevier, at 



230 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

one time editor of the Christian Intelligencer. John Harden- 
bergh Bevier of Bath, 111., Dr. Wm. Bevier of Denning, 
Ulster county, N. Y., Benjamin Bevier of Wilcox, Penn., 
Simon Bevier of Auburn, N. Y., and A. L. R. Bevier of 
Stark county. 111. 

Samuel Bevier 

Samuel Bevier, the son of Louis the immigrant, remained 
on the old homestead at New Paltz and his father made his 
home with him until his death in 1720. 

Of his children Abraham, Jacob and Philip settled at New 
Paltz, Abraham being an Associate Judge of that town. 
Johannes moved to Shawangunk where he was a prominent 
citizen and a leading elder in the church. Isaac removed 
to Rochester and his widow and two sons were killed by 
the Indians. Five grandsons of Samuel Bevier removed to 
western New York, being followed in the next generation 
by many more of the family, so that there are very few of 
Samuel's line now living in Ulster county. This branch 
of the Bevier family is represented in the seventh generation 
by Or\'ille D. Bevier of New York city and by Mrs. Henry 
A. Temple of St. John, N. B. 

Louis Bevier 

Louis Bevier, the second of the name, settled in Marble- 
town in 1 71 5 on the land purchased for him by his father 
of Peter Van Leuvan. He married Elizabeth Hasbrouck, 
daughter of Jean Hasbrouck of New Paltz, and died in 
1753. His only child, Louis, was born April 29, 1717. He 
was a noted surveyor and also served as Supervisor of his 
town. He married, in 1745, Esther, daughter of Philip Du- 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 23J: 




IIOISK OK LOL'IS ISKVIF.K AT MARHLETOWN 



2^2 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Bois of Rochester, he died in 1772. Of this third Louis his 
cousin Abraham Hasbrouck writes : 

"My cousin, Louis Bevier, departed this transitory life 
the 29th day of September, at two o'clock in the morning 
and in the year of our Lord 1772, aged 55 years, 4 months, 
19 days, and rests in the Lord until his coming. He was a 
good husband, a tender father, a good master, a kind neigh- 
bor, a true friend to liberty, a pillar in the church at Mar- 
bletown and elsewhere, an honest gentleman. He was en- 
dowed with a good share of knowledge, he was a comely 
man of middle stature, strong of body. He died of an 
apoplectic fit in the night, very suddenly, before his wife 
and children could come to him to see his exit." 

Louis Bevier, the third, had two sons that survived him, 
David and Philip. David, the grandfather of the writer, 
remained on the Marbletown homestead where I now reside ; 
while Philip removed to Rochester. Philip served as a 
Member of the Assembly in 1777 and was a colonel in the 
regular army during the Revolution. His only son. Dr. 
Louis D. B. Bevier, was a prominent ])hysician, and died 
in 185 1, leaving no heirs. 

David Bevier, at the age of 29 years, was an adjutant in a 
regiment of militia under Col. Levi Pawling, later he was 
one of the Committee of Safety. He married, in 1778, 
Maria, daughter of Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston, and 
in deference to her wishes the family ceased using the French 
language and adopted the Dutch. 

David Bevier had two sons, the elder Louis and the 
younger Joseph. I'or the latter he purchased a farm at 
Catskill. ])ut he afterwards sold this place and returned to 
the town of ()li\e. in L'lster eount\-. where he resided till 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 233 

his death in 1840. Joseph had but one son, David, whose 
sons, Joseph and Hasbrouck, are settled in Olive, while his 
youngest son, Charles, removed to Minnesota. 

The elder son, Louis, father of the writer, remained at 
Marbletown where he married ]\Iaria Eltinge, daughter of 
Cornelius Eltinge of Hurley. He was a captain in the war 
of 1812 and died in 1826. His only son is the writer of the 
present sketch. 

This line is further represented in the seventh generation 
by Louis Bevier, Jr., Professor of Greek in Rutgers College, 
New Brunswick, N. J., and in the eighth generation by Louis 
Bevier third, still a minor. 

Genealogy of the Bevier Family 
I. Louis Bevier, Married in 1673, Marie Le Blanc 

2ND generation 

Marie, born July 19. 1674, died in infancy. 

Jean, born Jan. 29, 1676, married April 14, 1712, settled at 
Wawarsing, died 1745. Catharine Montanye. 

Abraham, born Jan. 20, 1678, married Feb. 18, 1707, set- 
tled at Wawarsing. died 1774. Rachel Vernooy. 

Samuel, born Jan. 21, 1680. Settled at New Paltz, died 
1746. Magdalena Blanshan, daughter of Matthese Blanshan. 

Andries, born July 12, 1682. unmarried, settled at New 
Paltz, died 1768. 

Louis, born Nov. 6, 1684, married May 6, 1713, settled at 
Marbletown. died Feb. 10, 1753. Elizabeth Hasbrouck, 
daughter of Jean, born Feb. 25, 1685, died June 10. 1760. 

Esther, born Nov. 16, 1686, married Nov. 7, 1714. Jacob 
Hasbrouck, son of Jean. 

Solomon, bom July 12, 1689, died young. 



234 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

2. Jeax Bevier, Married Catharine Montanye 
3rd generation 

Marie, born March 7. 1713, died in infancy. 

Elenora. born May 23, 1714, settled at Minnisink. Benja- 
min Rolscher. 

Elizabeth, born Feb. 10, 1717, married 1751, settled at 
Wawarsing, died 1779. Isaac Bevier, son of Samuel, born 
Dec. 25, 1714. 

Johanna, born May 15, 1720, married April 23, 1753, set- 
tled at W'awarsing, died 1779. Michael Sax. 

Esther, born Oct. 18, 1722, married May 4. 1748. Solomon 
Westbrook, settled at Minnisink. 

Louis J., born Oct. 18, 1724, unmarried, settled at W'awar- 
sing, died 1812. 

Jesse, born May 11, 1729, married, settled at Wawarsing, 
died 1803. Elizabeth Hoffman. 

Johannes, born June 18, 1727, died in infancy. 

3. Jesse Bevier, ]\Iarried Elizabeth Hoffman 
4TH generation 

Blandina, born 1762, settled at Wawarsing. William Bod- 
ley ; 3 children baptized — Wawarsing records. 

David, born April i, 1764, settled at Wawarsing. Sally 
Gier. 

Catharine, born Aug. i, 1765, settled at Kerhonkson. 
Benjamin Depuy. Jr. ; 8 children baptized. 

John, bom Nov. 30, 1758, married Feb., 1792, settled at 
Jackson county, Indiana. Martha Green of Reddington. 

Lea, born Sept. 16, 1771, married April 9, 1792. William 
W. DeWitt : 4 children baptized. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 23^ 

4. David Bevier^ Married Sally Gier 
5TH generation 

Mary White, born June 17, 1806. 

Charles, born July 4, 1808. 

Elizabeth Hoffman, born Sept. 20, 1810. 

4. John Bevier, Married Martha Green 

Caty, bom Jan. 27, 1794. 

Ann Elizabeth, bom Nov. 5, 1795, married DeWitt Depuy,. 
settled at Rochester. 

Some of these two families moved to Jackson county, 
Indiana. 

2. Abraham Bevier^ Married Rachel Vernooy 
3RD generation 

Louis, born 1708, unmarried, died in 1750. 

Anna, born May 7, 1710, died in infancy. 

Cornelius, born Jan. 20, 1712, unmarried, died in 1770. 

Samuel, born Aug. 28, 1715, married June 10, 1739, set- 
tled at Wav^arsing, died 1774. Sarah LeFevre, daughter of 
Andries, born March i, 1719. 

Jacob, born Sept. 29, 1716, married Feb. 23, 1751, settled 
at Waw^arsing, died 1800. Anna Vernooy. 

Abraham, born Jan. 10, 1720, died aged 19 (see will). 

Maria, born Jan, 21, 1722, married June 20, 1745. Benja- 
min DuBois, son of Daniel, settled at New Paltz. 

Johannes, born April 26, 1724. married first Aug. 9, 1747, 
second Sept. 18, 1764, Wawarsing, died 1797. First, Rachel 
LeFevre, daughter of Andries, born June 23, 1728. Second, 
Elizabeth VanVleit, nee Gonzales. 



236 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Benjamin, born May 7, 17-^7, married Dec. 13. 1760, died 
1803. Elizabeth \'an Keuren, boni July 29, 1726, daughter 
of Tjerck Matthysen and Maria Ten Eyck. 

Daniel, unmarried, died 1786. 

3. Samuel Bevier, Married Sarah LeFevre 
4TH generation 

Andries, born April 14, 1742, married June 21, 1764, settled 
at Wawarsing, died 1800. Jacomyntje DuBois, born April 21, 
1745, daughter of Cornelius DuBois. 

Abraham, Jr., born Nov. 18, 1746, settled at Shavvangunk. 
Maria DuBois, bom April 20, 1746, daughter of Jonathan. 

Maria, born Oct. 17, 1750, married April 23, 1772. Corne- 
lius G. \'ernooy, Rochester. 

Rachel, born Oct. 17, 1750, married April 19, 1776. Johan- 
nes A. DeWitt, Rochester. 

Maria and Rachel were twins. 

Matthew, born 1744, married Dec. 2, 1769, Shawangunk. 
Jacomytje Bevier, born Sept. 28, 1744, daughter of Abram S. 

EHzabeth, born Feb. 18, 1753, married. Arthur Morris, 
Rochester. 

Cornelia, born Jan. 21, 1755. married, first Dec. 9, 1774. 
First, Matthew Newkirk. Hurley. Second, Peter Bevier, 
Chenango. 

3. Jacob Bevier, Married Anna Vernooy 
4TII generation 

Jenneke, born Jan. 16, 1752, died in infancy. 
Abraham, born July 19, 1753. married, Wawarsing, died 
1825. First, Margaret LeFevre. born Oct. 26. 1752. daughter 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 237 

of Abraham LeFevre. Second, Abagail Vanderbilt. Third, 
Sarah \'ernooy, widow. 

Sarah, born Aug. 28, 1755, married. CorneUus Bevier, son 
of Johannes. 

Rachal, born Feb. 10, 1759, died young. 

EHzabeth, born 1762, unmarried, died 1828. 

Anna, born May 12, 1765, married. John J. DuBois, born 
Aug. 4, 1 75 1, son of Johannes DuBois and Judith Wynkoop, 
Hurley. 

Catherine, born July 28, 1768, married Nov. 8, 1796. Peter 
Jansen, born Nov. 16, 1755, Marbletown. 

3. Johannes Bevier, Married,, ist Rachel LeFevre; 
2ND Cornelia Vernooy 

4TH generation 

Maria, born 1750, married. Auburn, John L. Hardenberg. 
2nd wife, Martha Brinkerhoff. 

Sarah, born June 16, 1752, married, Mamakating. Manuel 
Gonsaulus. 

Andries LeFevre, born March 20, 1754, died young. 

Simon Bevier, born April 29, 1756, married Dec. 11, 1790, 
Wawarsing. Maria Bevier, daughter of Benjamin, born Oct. 
16, 1768. Elizabeth Cantine. 

Conrad, born May 7, 1758, Napanock. Elizabeth Roosa. 

Cornelius, born 1760, Wawarsing, died 1790. Sarah Bevier, 
daughter of Jacobus, Cornelia Veniooy. 

Cornelia, born 1762, Chenango, N. Y. Petrus Bevier, born 
April 8. 1753, son of Philip. 

Jacob J., bom June i. 1766, married Aug. 6, 1786, Leuren- 
kill. Margaret DeWitt. 



238 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Daniel, born Dec. 17, 1768, married Nov. 19, 1791, Oil Creek. 
Sarah Bevier, daughter of Abraham Bevier, Jr. 

Abraham, born March 11, 1770, married Dec. 11, 1793, 
Leurenkill. Jennike Vernooy. 

Benjamin, Married Elizabeth X'anKeuren 
4tii generation 

Benjamin, born 1762, married 1790, Wawarsing. Leah 
Roosa. 

Maritje, born Oct. 16, 1768, married Feb. i, 1790, Wawar- 
sing, died 1792. Simon Bevier, born 1756, son of Johannes; 
2nd wife, Eliza Cantine. 

4. Andries Bevier, Married Jacomyntje DuBois 
5TH generation 

Sarah, born Aug. i, 1765, unmarried, settled in Owasco. 

Samuel, born Oct. 25, 1766, married, settled in Cayuga 
county. Elizabeth Bevier, born 1768, daughter of Abm. 
Bevier. 

Cornelius, born April 27, 1769, married, settled in Cayuga 
county. Susan Nottingham. 

Wilhelmus, born May 10, 1771, married Jan. 11, 1801, set- 
tled at Wawarsing. Annatje Hoornbcck, bom May 29, 1771. 

Lewis, born Dec. 4, 1773, married Oct. 20, 1805, settled at 
Wawarsing, died 1838. Garretje VanKeuren. 

Abraham A., born July 28, 1776, married Aug. 8, 1801, set- 
tled at Wawarsing. Ann Perrine. 

Marjritje, May 30, 1779, unmarried, Owasco. 

Jannet, born Aug. 30, 1781, died in infancy. 

Josiah, born Feb. 9, 1785, married, Owasco. ist, Hannah 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 239 

Brinkerhoff. 2nd, Leah Bevier, born March 23, 1787, daugh- 
ter of Conrad Bevier. 

Rachel, born March i, 1791, married. Henry J. Brinker- 
hoff, Mansfield, Ohio. 

4. Abraham Bevier, Married Maria DuBois 

Elizabeth, born Nov. 20, 1768, married. Samuel Bevier, 
born Oct. 25, 1766, son of Andries. 

Sarah, born Sept. 9, 1770, married Nov. 19, 1791. Daniel 
Bevier, born Dec. 17, 1768, son of Johannes, Oil Creek. 

Samuel, born Jan. 4, 1772. 

Rachel, born May 7, 1774. 

Jonathan, born May 2"^, 1776. 

Nathaniel DuBois, born Sept. 13, 1777, Shawangunk. 

4. Matthew Bevier, Married Jacomyntje Bevier 
5th generation 
Abraham, born Jan. 8, 1772. 
Sarah, born July 9, 1775. 
Samuel, born Nov. 7, 1777. 
Margaret, born July 13, 1780. 
Cornelius, born Nov. 19, 1784. 

4. Abraham Bevier, Married, ist Margaret LeFevre, 
2ND Abby Vanderbilt, 3RD Sarah Vernggy 

5TII GENERATION 

Andries, born Oct. 28, 1780, married Feb. 18, 1805. settled 
in Gardiner, died Jan., 1845. Mary Deyo, born Dec. 2. 1785, 
died April 19, 1858. 

Maria, bom Feb. 10, 1783, married July 18, 1802, settled at 
Wawarsing. Andries I. LeFevre, born Oct. 5, 1777. 

Rachel, born Oct. 25, 1785. 



240 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Lena, born Nov. 16, 1787, married. Simon MuUer. 

Cornelia, born May 6, 1790. 

Marjrietje, born Aug;. 11, 1791, unmarried. 

Abagail, born Nov. 17, 1794, married. David McKinstry. 

4. Conrad Bevier, Married Elizabeth Roosa 
5th generation 

Benjamin Rosa, born Sept. 10, 1782, married, settled in 
Napanoch, died in 1865. Catharine Ten Eyck, daughter of 
Richard Ten Eyck. 

Matthew, born Oct. 2, 1785, married, settled in Bath, 111. 
Cornelia Hardenburgh. 

Lea, born March 23, 1787, 2nd wife of Josiah Bevier, son of 
Andries Bevier, Owasco. 

Lucas, born April 2, 1792, unmarried. 

Maria, born July 18, 1795, married. Simon Bevier, born 
March 5. 1788, son of Cornelius, Wawarsing. 

Jane, born March 19, 1799, married. Moses C. Depuy, 
Rochester. 

4. Cornelius Bevier, Married, ist Sarah Bevier, 
2ND Cornelia Vernooy 

5TH generation 

Sarah, born April 20. 1777. married, Wawarsing. Jacob 
Hermance. 

Johannes, born Oct. 15, 1784, married Aug. 14, 1808, Lacka- 
wack, died Feb. 22, 1842. Elizabeth Tearhout, July 31, 1792. 

Conrad, born April 2, 1786, married, Lackawack. Sarah 
Vernooy. 

Simon, born 1788, Wawarsing, died April 23, 1846. Maria 
Bevier. born July 18, 1795, daughter of Conrad. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 241 

4. Simon Bevier, Married, ist Maria Bevier, 
2ND Elizabeth Cantine 

5TII GENERATION 

Simon, born Oct. 3. 1792, died in infancy. 

Samuel, born Oct. 3. 1796, married. Oil Creek. Maria Van 
Wagenen. 

Magdalena, born April 9, 1798. unmarried, Buffalo. 

Peter, born March 4, 1802. married Jan. i, 1828, Drowned 
Lands. Elizabeth Terwilliger ; no children. 

Elijah, born Dec. 5, 1805, married, Owasco, Onondaga 
county, Elizabeth Bevier. 

Rachel, born Aug. i, 1808, married, Wawarsing. Peter 
Cantine ; no children. 

Maria, born March 7. 181 1. married. Stephen Dewitt, 
Western New York. 

Andrew, born Sept. 20. 1813. married, Western New York. 
Martha J. Shaver. 

Margaret, born Feb. 14. 1816. married. Andries Dewitt, Ohio. 

4. Jacob J. Bevier, Married Margaret Dewitt 

5TI1 generation 

Johannes Dewitt, born Sept. 14, 1787, Leurenkill. 

Cornelius, bom Feb. 26. 1791. 

Alexander, born Sept. 14, 1792. 

Richard Brodhead, born July 10, 1796. 

Daniel. 

Matthew. 

Nathaniel. 

Simon. 

Catharine. 

Leah. 



242 lllSTOKY OF NEW PA LIZ 

4. Daniel Be\il;r, MARRiiiD Sahah Bevier 

5111 GENERATION 

Maria, born Feb. 24, 1793. 

Johannes, born Xov. 13, 1794, < Jil Creek. 

4. Abraham J. Be\ier, Married Jenneke Vernooy 
5T11 generation 

Jenneke, born Sept. 30, 1794, married. Jolm A. Snyder, 
EUenville. 

Elizabeth, born April 20, 179O. married, W'awarsint,^ ; ist, 
Moses Bevier, son of Benjamin; 2d, Charles Sluillz. 

Nathan, born Feb. 11, 1798. married, Lafayette. Stark 
county. III. Sarah Brannen. 

Maria \'ernooy, born May 28. 1800. married. Daniel Elmore. 

Jacob Hoornbeck, born Oct. 29. 1802, died in infancy. 

Jacob Hoornbeck. born Aug. 15. 1805, married, Fairfax 
county. \'a., died Dec. 6. 1888. Sarah Devine. 

Sarah X'ermxjy, born March 5. iSii. married. Silas Cillett, 
Illinois. 

4. P)ENjA.Mix P.i:\ii:r. M \rkii:i) Leah Roo.sa 

5TH GENER.XTION 

Elizabeth, born Sept. 16, 1790, married. Luke Dewitt. 
Owasco. 

Jannetje. born May 9, 1795. Jophal Hoornbeck. Rochester. 

Levi, born July 22. 1797, died young. 

Moses, born Oct. 18, 1799. married. EUenville, died Xov. 
22, 1828. Elizabeth Bevier. born April 20. 1796. (2d hus- 
band Chas. Schultz.) 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 243 

Lewis, born Oct. 25, 1802, married, Wawarsing. Gertrude 
Smeedes ; no children. 

Maria, born Jan. 15, 1805. 
Ann, born Oct. 25, 1807. 

Tjerck, born , married , died 1830. 

Sarah Dewitt. daughter of Reul)en Devvitt. 

2. Samuel Beyier, M.vrried Magdalena Blanjean 
3d generation 

Solomon, born May 13, 171 1, died in infancy. 

Matthew, born June 28, 1712, died 1746. 

Abraham, born June, 171 3, married Jan. 3. 1742. Settled at 
New Paltz, died 1796. Margaret Kiting, born May 18. 17 18, 
daughter of Roelof Elting. 

Isaac, born Dec. 25, 17 14, married 1751, settled at Wawar- 
sing. Elizabeth Bevier, born Feb. 10, 1727, daughter of Jean 
Bevier. 

Jacobus, born April 29. 1716. married 1740. New Paltz. 
Antje Freer. 

Margaret, born June 30, 1717, married June 17, 1737. Bloom- 
ingdale. Matthew LeFevre, born April 10. 1710, son of 
Andries. 

Maria, born Oct. 5. 1718, married Abraham LeFevre. l)orn 
March 25, 1716, son of Jan LeFevre. 

Louis S., born Jan. 10. 1720, died young. 

Esther, born Jan. 8. 1721. married. Cornelius L. Brink, 
Shawangunk. 

Johannes, Iwrn Sept. 9, 1722. married Sept. 2, 1749, Sha- 
wangunk, died 179^. Magdalena LeFevre, born Oct. 11. 1724, 
daughter of Simon. 

Philip. Ixirn Fob. c>. 1724. married July 10. 174S. Tryntje 
Low. jud husl)anil Adriance Newkirk. of Hurlev. 



244 HISTORY OF X E\V PALTZ 

3. Abraham Bkvikk, Married Margaret Eltinge * 

4th generation 

Sarah, born June 25, 1744. married Oct. 25. 1765. Petrus 
Hasbrouck, born Aug. 20, 1738, New Paltz. 

Jacomyntje, born Sept. 28, 1746, married Dec. 2, 
1769. Matthew Bevier, born 1744, son of Sam'jcl, 
ShawangLink. 

Solomon, born Dec. 4, 1748, married, died Nov. 10, 1810. 
Elenor Griffin, born Dec. 22, 1745, died Aug. 12, 1820. 

Katrintje, born Oct. 19, 1750, married Jan. 24. 1762. Ma- 
thusalem DuBois, bom May 23, 1742, son of Ephriam. 

Roelof Eltinge, born May 16, 1753, died young. 

Maria, born March 18, 1755, married. Isaac Hasbrouck, 
born April 13. 1746, son of Daniel. 

Abraham A., born ( )ct. 29, 1758, married, Chenango, died 
181 7. Maria Freer. 

Magdalen, married Nov. 9, 1766. Mattheus Decker, Sha- 
wangunk. 

Esther, died young. 

3. Isaac Bevier, Married Elizabeth Bevier 

4TH generation 

Katrintje, born Ap^il 2'i<. 1752, married. Abraham Jansen, 
Leurenkill. 

Solomon, born March 20. 1754. 

Josiah. born Aug. 10, 1756. 

The two above persons were killed by Indians in 1779. 

Magdalena, born June 24, 1759, unmarried. 

Eliza, born .April 17. I7''>3, died young. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 245 

3. Johannes Bevier, Married Magdalena LeFevre 

4TH generation 

Cornelia, born Aug. 30, 1750, died young. 

Jonathan, born Jan. 28, 1752, unmarried. 

Magdalena, born Nov. 25, 1753, married 1783. Jan Hoff- 
man, Shawangunk. 

Nathaniel, born April 17, 1756, married, Shawangunk. 
Catharine Dewitt, daughter of Dr. Andries Dewitt. 

Jonas, born July 26, 1758, Shawangunk. Maria Dewitt. 

Cornelia, born Jan. 25, 1761, married Nov. 7, 1786. Noah 
LeFevre, born Oct. 29, 1754, son of Abraham. 

3. Philip Bevier, Married Tryntje Low 
4TH generation 

Catharine, born April 9, 1749, unmarried, New Hurley. 

Magdalena, born Jan. 13, 1751, married. Abraham DuBois, 
born Feb. 15, 1749, son of Benjamin. 

Petrus, bom April 28, 1753. married. Cornelia Bevier, born 
1762, daughter of Johannes. 

Sarah, born April 23, 1755. 

Elias, born April 25, 1756. 

Sara, born Jan. 22, 1758. 

4. Solomon Bevier. Married Eleanor Griffin 

5TI1 generation 

Abraham Solomon, bom June 27. 1774. 
Rcelof, born Jan. 21, 1776. 



246 HISTORV OF NEH' PALTZ 

John, born May 8, 1777, married, ist Hannah Smith on Jan. 
22, 1804, 2nd Margaret Anable on March 22, 1826. 
Margrietje, born Jan. 15, 1779. 
Cat}', born Aug. 17, 1780. 
Charity, born Jan. 31, 1781. 
Nelly, born Nov. 2y, 1783. 
Noah, born April 25, 1785. 
Maria, born Oct. 20, 1787. 

Abraham A. Bevikr, Married Maria Freer 

5TH GENER.VTION 

Isaac, born Oct. 29, 1784. 

Roelof Eltinge, born Dec. 28, 1785. 

Abraham, born April 13, 1787. 

Thomas, born Nov. 29, 1788. 

Thomas, born Dec. 29, 1790. 

Zacharias, born March 6, 1796. 

All the above were born in Broome county, N. Y. 

3. Jacobus Bevier, Married Antje Freer 
4T11 generation 

Samuel, born Nov. 9, 1740, married, settled in Chenango. 
Rachel Auchmoody. 

Jacob, born 1742, died in infancy. 

Antje, born June 3. 1745. married. Benjamin Hasbrouck, 
born Jan. 31, 1748, son of Daniel. 

Jacob, born Feb. i, 1747, married. New Paltz. Maria York. 

Matthew, born June 24. 1748. 

Magdalena, born Dec. 22,, 1749, married Jonas Freer. 

Simeon, born Jan. 28, 1752. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 247 

Elias, born March 28, 1753, married, New Paltz and Broome 
county, N. Y. Sarah LeFevre, born June 5, 1763, daughter 
of Peter LeFevre. 

Sarah, born July 30, 1755, married Johannis Freer. 

Maria, born Jan. 24, 1758, married, second wife. Benjamin 
Hasbrouck, bom Jan. 31, 1748, son of Daniel. 

Jannetje, born Jan. 31. 1761, married. John York, New Paltz. 

4. Samuel Bevier, Married Rachel Auchmoody 

5TH generation 

Maria, born Dec. 7, 1774. 
Jacobus, born Sept. 8, 1776. 
Antje, born Aug. 11, 1778. 
Cornelius, born Feb. 6, 1780. 
Josiah, born July 12, 1782. 
Lydia, born Aug. 25, 1784. 

Christian, born Sept. i, 1786. married March 20, 1810. 
Magdalena Freer. 

All the above were born in Chenango, Broome county. 
Maria, born July 3, 1789. 
Eliza, born Aug. 27, 1791. 

3. Jacob Bevier, Married Maria York 
5tii generation 

Maria, born July 2, 1775, died in infancy. 

Maria, bom Oct. 18. 1776, married. Ambrose Mitchel. 

Jacobus, born June 30, 1778, married. New Paltz. Mary 
Yandel. 

Isaac, born March 27, 1780, married Dec. 2, 1802, New Paltz, 
died Oct. 3, 1820. Mary York, died Aug. 8. 1859. 

Catharine, born Jan. 23. 1782. married. Luther Sawtell. 



248 HISTORY Of XEll' PALTZ 

Ezckiel, born July 2t^, ^y^A- married March 22, 1810, died 
April 22, 1869. Helen \'an Ijiinible. 

Jonathan, born Aug^. 17, 1786, married March 17, 181 1. 
Judith Low. 

Jeremiah, born May 11. 1789. married April 30, 1812, 
Esopus. Wyntje Smith. 

Henry, born Nov. 25. 1791. 

4. Elias Bevier, Married Sarah LeFevre 
5TH generation 

Petrus LeFevre, born 1786. 
Elizabeth, born Jan. 18, 1788. 
Antje, born Dec. 15, 1789. 

]\laria, born Sept. 2^, 1791, married Dec. 29, 1814. Gerrit 
Newkirk. 

Reuben, born Dec. 4. 1793. 

Magdalena. born March 7, 1796. 

Jennike, born July 4, 1798. 

Lydia. born Jan. 25, 1801. 

Johan \'crnooy, born March 20. 1804. 

Samuel, born July 13, i8c6. 

4. X.\THANIEL BeVIER, MaRRIED CaTRINA DeWITT 
5TII GENER.\TION 

Sarah, born Oct. 21, . 

Map^dalena. bom April 28. 1790. married March 30, 1812. 
Charles Eltinp^, born March 30. 1792. 

Jane Vernooy, born Feb. 24. 1792. married. .Xbraham El- 
tinj^, born March 30, 1792. 

Elizabeth Lynot. born ( )ct. 12. 1795. married May 28. 1814, 
died Nov. 25. 1835. IKiiry Deyo. born March 30, 1792. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 249 

4. Jonas Bevier, Married Maria Dewitt 
5tii generation 

Magdalena, born Sept. 15, 1794. 

Neeltje, bom Sept. 15, 1796, married Feb. 3, 1818. Silas 
Winfield, Shawangunk. 

Johannes Dewitt. born Feb. 28, 1798, died yoimg. 

Jonathan, born July 20, 1800, married Dec. 10, 1825, died 
. 1829. Hannah LeFevre. 

Nathaniel, born Feb. 25, 1804. 

Stephen, born April 19, 1806. 

Lea Dewitt. born Feb. 16, 1808. 

Jane Xewkirk. born Dec. 5, 1810, marrred. Annanius 
Winfield. 

4. Petrus Bevihir. Married Cornelia Bevier 
5TI1 gener.-\tion 

Catrintje, born June 12, 1785. 

•Philippus, born Oct. 31, 1787. 

Rachel, born Jan. 8, 1789. 

Mattheus. born Nov. 29, 1790. Chenango, N. Y. 

2. Louis Bevier, Married Elizabeth Hasbrouck 

3RD GENERATION 

Louis, bom April 29. 171 7, married Oct. 24, 1743, Marble- 
town, died Sept. 29, 1772. Esther DuBois, born June 20, 1718. 
daughter of Philip DuBois, died Oct. 7. 1790. 

3. Louis Bevier. Married Esther DuBois 

4TII GENERATION 

David, born Nov. 2y, 1746. married Jan. zy, 1772, Marble- 
town, died June 17. 1822. Maria Hasbrouck, born July 7, 
1751. daughter of .Abraham Hasbrouck. died Nov. 29, 1816. 



250 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

Klizabeth. born June 9, 1749, married March 4. 1773. Joseph 
Hasbrouck, bom March 4. 1744, son of Abraham, Guilford, 
died Feb. 26, 1808. 

PhiUp D. B., born Dec. 28. 1751. married Dec. 29, 1782, 
Rochester, died April 18. 1802. Ann Dewitt. born Oct. 20, 
1862. 

Louis, born Aug. 15. 1754, died in infancy. 

Esther, born Dec. 23, 1755. died in infancy. 

4. David Bevier, Married Maria Hasbrouck 
57 H generation 

Louis, born Feb. 13, 1779, married Jan. 6, 1807, Marbletown, 
died Oct. 25, 1826. Maria Eltinge. born March 9, 1785, 
daughter of Cornelius Eltinge. 

Abraham Bourbon, born March 30. 1781, died May 5, 1782. 

Joseph, bom Nov. i, 1703, married, Olive, died 1840. 
Catharine Hasbrouck. daughter of Jacobus B. Hasbrouck. 

Philip, born Dec. 11, 1785, died Oct. 25, 1791. 

Catharine, born Sept. 29, 1789, married Jan. 18, 181 5. 
Stephen Stilvvell, New^ Paltz. 

Esther, bom Aug. 6, 1791. died Nov. 20, I7*>i. 

4. Philip D. 1'. r.i\iiR, }kL\RRiri> Aw Oi wnx 

5111 GENERATION 

Esther, bom Jan. 8, 1785. married Jan. 30. 1810, died Aug. 
30, 1871. Philip Hasbrouck. born Oct. 22. 1783, son of Joseph 
Hasbrouck, New Paltz. 

Hilletje, born Feb. 14. 1788. died July 25. 1788. 

Rachel, born Jan. 18. I78<). married April 30. 1809, died 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 251 

Feb. 2, 1858. Thomas R. Hardenburgh, Woodburn, Sullivan 
county, died May 14, 1869. 

Elizabeth, born Jan. 18, 1790, unmarried. 

Maria Ann, born Feb. 2, 1791, married, Port Jarvis. Rev. 
Cornelius C. Eltinge, born May 12, 1793, son of Cornelius 
Eltinge. 

Henrietta Cornelia, born Nov. 22, 1792. James Hasbrouck, 
son of Joseph Hasbrouck, New Paltz. 

Louis DuBois, born June 3, 1794, married June, 1839, Roch- 
ester, died March 31, 1851. Charity Hoornbeck. 

Hylah, born Aug. 3, 1795, New Paltz. Levi Hasbrouck, 
son of Josiah Hasbrouck, died March 7, 1861. 

Sarah Amelia, born March 23, 1797, married, died Oct. 18, 
1861. Cornelius L'.ruyn. born June 16, 1789, died April 23, 
1873- 

5. Louis Bevier, AL\rried Maria Eltinge 
6th generation 

Maria, born Sept. 21, 1807, married, died Aug. i, 1878. Rev. 
Cornelius L. Van Dyck, born Jan. 5, 1804, died Sept. 13, 1866. 

Blandina, born Oct. i, 1809, unmarried, died June 21, 1889. 

Catharine, born Nov. 11, 1811, married, died March 29, 1868. 
Oliver G. DuBois, son of Derick DuBois. 

Jane, born April 26, 1814, married, died March 29, J883. 
Edgar Hasbrouck, born Feb. 25, 1814, son of L S. Hasbrouck, 
died July 15, 1854. 

Esther Gumaer, born July 6, 181 7, died Oct. 15, 1877. G. 
VV. Basten, son of Geo. Basten. 

Magdalena DuBois, born Jan. 23, 1820, died Feb., 1897. 
Willet S. Northrop, died Aug., 1895. 

Louis, bom Aug. 21, 1822, married, Marbletown. Catharine 



252 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

Van Dyck, born March 29. 1824, daughter of Lawrence C. Van 
Dyck. died Jan. 24, 1885. 

Ehzabeth, born Dec. 10. 1824, married. Peter \'an Dyck. 

5. Joseph Bevier, Married C.ath.\rine Hasbrouck 
6th generation 

Mary Ann, married. Russell Holmes, Catskill and Olive. 

David, born Aug. 10, 1818, married, Olive, died Sept. 11, 
1866. Deborah Lockwood. born June 28. 1820. died April 2, 
1887. 

Catharine, unmarried, died 1840. 

Eleanor, married, second wife. Russell Holmes. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 253 



CHAPTER XXIII 

The Deyo Family at New Paltz 

Two New Paltz patentees, Christian and Pierre, bore the 
name of Deyo and were father and son. They were among 
the last of the twelve to set foot on the soil of the New World, 
where Anthony Crispell, Louis DuBois and his sons and the 
two LeFevre brothers had already resided for some years. In 
1675 Pierre Deyo was still in the Palatinate as is shown by his 
certificate of good standing and church membership from the 
noted pastor Amyot. This precious relic which has come 
straight down in the Deyo family is now in the possession of 
Mr. A. D. Brodhead. It is in the German tongue, is in a 
good state of preservation and a translation is as follows : 

This is to certify that Peter Doio and Agatha Nickel both 
in honor living in Curr Pfaltz, Mutterstadt. circuit of New- 
stadt, have been united in marriage, the intent of such marriage 
having been announced three times from the pulpit, that they 
are members of the Reformed church and as far as we know 
the same are well behaved people. Mutterstadt, Curr Pfaltz, 
21 Jan.. 1675. Jacob Amyot, Pastor. 

Louis DuBois was the man who discovered New Paltz and 
was the leader in the settlement, but Christian Deyo was called 
"Grandpcre" or grandfather in the old documents and was, in 
fact, the grandfather of most of the children of the vouthful 
settlement. Christian's son Pierre was a patentee, likewise his 
four sons-in-law. John and Abraham Hasbrouck, Simon Le- 
Fevre and Abraham DuBois. The youngest of the patentees, 



254 HISTORY OF \ IIW PALTZ 

Isaac DuBois, married Maria, daughter of Jean Hasbrouck 
and ,i,rran(ldaug:litcr of Christian Dcyo. Christian Deyo had 
grandchildren bom on the other side of the Atlantic and one 
of his granddaughters, Esther Hasbrouck, who was born in the 
Palatinate, married in 1692, Peter (iumaer. one of the earliest 
settlers of Minisink, so already at that early date New Paltz 
became the cradle of the surrounding country. 

Before ending his days. Christian Deyo saw his family all 
settled around him at New Paltz, the three unmarried daugh- 
ters who came with him to the new world having become the 
wives of Abraham Hasbrouck, Simon LeFevre and Abraham 
DuBois. 

Christian Deyo was quite certainly an old man at the time of 
the settlement of New Paltz and lived only about ten years 
afterwards. His will, which is recorded in Book A, in the 
County Clerk's office at Kingston, is as follows: 

In ye name of God, amen. Ve first day of February, Anno 
Dom., 1O86-7 (the fractional form showing the date according 
to the Old and New Style), Christian Doyou, of ye New Paltz, 
in ye County of Ulster, being sick in body and of good and 
perfect memor}-, thanks be to Almighty God, and calling to 
remembrance the imcertain state of this transitory life and that 
all flesh must yield to death when it shall please God to call, 
I do make, constitute, ordain and declare this my last will and 
testament in manner following, revoking and annulling l)y these 
presents all and every testament in manner following : 

I will, first, that all my just debts be paid within convenient 
time after my decease by my executors, as named. I give to 
my son Peter Doyou fiftyrix dollars, that my son was indebted 
to me and then to share cf|ually with all of the rest of my 
children of mv estate and further 1 do give to mv son's son. 



HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 255 

Christian Doyou, forty pieces of eight and a small gun and 
then I do hereby give unto my five children all ye rest of my 
estate of lands, housings, chatties and movable goods, to them, 
their heirs, executors and assigns forever, as witness my hand 
and seal, in Kingston, ye day and year above written and I 
do desire that my corpse may be buried at ye New Paltz. 

Ye mark of 
Christian Dovau. 

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 

Nicator Depew, 
William DuMont. 
Jno. David, 
Plumphrey Davcnol. 

It will be noticed that the will does not mention any executor, 
and perhaps it was owing to this singular omission that the 
estate was settled by the heirs as appears by a writing in French 
of which the following literal translation was made by Frank 
Hasbrouck of Poughkeepsie. , 

The twenty-foiuih ( )ctober 1687 we the undersigned have 
agreed that which follows, that is, that to terminate the dif- 
ference which we might have for the inheritance of our father 
me abraham assebroucg will receive thirty pieces of eight 
[dollars] from I^lr. P>ekman niton that which lie owes to our 
father christian doyeau and me abraham dubois will receive 
also from said bekman twenty-eight pieces of eight and from 
my brother-in-law pierre doyeau fifty-five bushels of good win- 
ter wheat because of what comes to me of my part of the 
negro of our father from the said ])ierre doyau and me lean 
assebroucg should receive from Abraham assebroucg ten 
bushels and from abraham dubois eleven bushels and we 



256 Jl I STORY Of XEir PALTZ 

Pierre doyau Jean asscbroucg and Simon le fevre will receive 
from said bekman the surplus of said thirty pieces of eight 
and of said twenty pieces of eight which are due [word oblite- 
rated] the abraham assebrouc and liabraham dubois tlie sur- 
])lus say I which the said bekman owes to our father christian 
doyau we the under-named pierre doyau ian assebrouc and 
Simon le febvre will share it equally as also the twenty-five 
pieces of eight which vallercm dumont owes to our father chris- 
tian doyau and that which is due for the rest by the other 
debtors of our said father except that the said abraham asse- 
brouc and abraham dubois should be able to claim nothing in 
the said debts and it is agreed that if there are any complaints 
from any of those interested in the inheritance of our father 
because of what things have been done or what could be done 
each of us five heirs will pay our part of it and if the said re- 
payments arise from the complaint of any one of us that one 
alone shall pay the said penalty. 

pierre doyo 
Marque de Simon le febvre 

Abraham hasbrouck Jean assebrouc 
Abraham duboi 



Pierre the Patentee 

There is an old tradition that Pierre Deyo the Patentee, only 
son of Christian Deyo. died while on an expedition to find a 
route from New Paltz to the River, and that long afterwards a 
buckle of a truss that he had worn was found at the foot of a 
tree and that this was the only clue to his mysterious fate. 
This story is told by Josiah R. Elting in his genealogical record, 
but it is probable that the Pierre who died on the way to the 



HISTORV OF XEir FALTZ 257 

River was Pierre, son of the Patentee of the same name. 
This Pierre grew to man's estate but left no children, as Josiah 
R. Elting- says concerning the Pierre who died looking for a 
route to the River. 

Pierre the Patentee left four sons. Christian, born in Pala- 
tinate in 1674; Abraham, born at Hurley in 1676; Pierre, 
baptized at New Paltz in 1683 and Henricus baptized at New 
Paltz in 1690; also two daughters, Mary and ^Margaret; the 
first born in 1679, married Jacob Clearwater, settled at Bontecoe 
and had a son, Abraham, christened at New Paltz in 1699. 

The very oldest paper in the Theodore Deyo collection is a 
bond given by Pierre Deyo the Patentee, in 1681, and is in 
English as follows : 

Kingestowne, 26th April, 1681. 

I under written Peter dolliaw of ye New Palse doe owne to 
stand indebted unto mee Thomas Dellavoll ye sum of fifty two 
Sch. wheatte, wch I doe oblige my self to pay this next year 
now cominge on, whereunto I have sett my hand to be de- 
livered at ye water syde. Pierre doyo. 

On the back of this paper is indorsed. 

Kingstowne, 26th April 1681 Peter doliou of ye New Palse 
his obligation for 52 Sch. wheatte to be paid this winter 
coming on. 

There is also the further indorsement. 

Kingstowne 23d Jan. 168^. 

Reed of ye sed Peter Doliaw ye contents of this bond, say 
reed by mee John Fontaine for my master. 

Thomas Delavoll. 



258 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 




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ANCIENT DOCUMENT WITH SIGNATUKE OF PIERRE HEYO, THE I'ATEXTKK 



HISTORY OF NEW I'ALTZ 259 

Christian, Son. of Pierre the Patentee 

Christian settled without (i(»ul)l in tlie Sitrin^town neighbor- 
hood, where his descenchmts liave since hved and where his 
descendants janies E. and Matthew Deyo now reside. In the 
will of his ti^rantlfather Christian is specially remembered by 
the bequest of a small gun. Christian was married at New 
Paltz in 1702 to Marytje DeGraff (in I'rench LeConte). It 
is somewhat singular that the marriage is recorded on the 
church books both at Xew Paltz and Kingston. On the New 
Paltz church book the quaint record is as follows : "Christian 
Doyo and Alary LeConte were married in this town of Paltz 
(Pals, sometimes also called Le Palle)." 

Christian's name appears in the list of taxpayers in 1712, in 
the list of soldiers in Capt. Hoffman's company in 1716. in 
the list of those who built the first stone church in 1720, in the 
list of freeholders in 1728 and in the list of slaveholders in 
1755. His name ajipears as deacon in the church at Xew 
Paltz in 1733 and m 1765 as an elder. 

Christian left only two sons of whom we have any record. 
Moses and Jacobus: also a daughter Mary, who in 1731 mar- 
ried Jeems Ackmoidi, a Scotchman and ancestor of the Auch- 
moody family. 

Christian's son Jacobus moved to Kingston and we shall give 
his history hereafter. Moses who was born in 1706 married 
in 1728 Clarissa Stokhard and lived in a frame house, lorn 
down about 1820 about a mile north of Springtown. Moses' 
name appears in the list of Xew Paltz soldiers in 1738. He 
and his wife Clarissa Stokhard joined the church at Xew Paltz 
in 1752. In the tax list of 1765 we find the names of Moses 
and his sons. Christian. Jr.. and Johannis. Jr., all residing iii 
the Si>ringtown neighborhood. ( ( )n the same list we find the 
names of Johannis and Christopher Deyo. sons of Hendricus 



26o HISTORy Of XEll' PALTZ 

and cousins of Closes, as residing in the same locality.) Chris- 
tian, Jr., who was born in 1732, married Elidia Terwilliger in 
1762. We have no account of his brother Johannis. The sons 
of Christian, jr., aiul Elidia Terwilliger were Josiah, born in 
1763; Jonathan (in Dutch Voane), born in 1766; Moses, born 
in 1768, and Matthew, born in 1777. Jonathan and Matthew 
married and resided in the neighborhood. We have no account 
of Moses, and none of Josiah except that he married Catharine 
Blanshan and had a daughter Maria, who married ]\Iartinas 
Freer and moved with him to western New York. Romcx) 
H. Freer, attorney general of the State of West X'irginia, is 
their grandson. 

Jonathan married Catharine Ean of Bontecoe, a sister of 
Peter Ean. From Jonathan the homestead descended to his 
son Christian, who occupied it during his life and was the last 
to bear the honored name of the eldest of the New Paltz 
Patentee's. 

From Christian the farm descended to his sons, James E. 
and Matthew, who now till the land that has been in the family 
so many generations. 

Years ago the house burned and the family papers were lost. 
It is, therefore, not possible to give as full a history of the 
family as could otherwise be done. 

Jacobus Deyo 

We will now go back to Jacobus, son of Christian and 
brother of Moses, who left his home at Springtown and went 
to Kingstriii. In 1724 he married, at Kingston, Janitje Freer. 
Both are set down at that time as residing at New Paltz. They 
had several daughters and one son Jacobus, born in 1732; also 
a son Peter. Jacobus' name does not appear on the records at 
New Paltz. ])ut in 1738 it is found in the list of foot soldiers 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 261 

of Kingston, from which it is evident that he moved to that 
place. Afterwards he or his widow moved to Dutchess county 
and in the Poughkeepsie church records appears the following 
entry: "Janitje Freer, widow of Jacobus Dejoo, born at New 
Paltz, married April 22, 1754, to Richard Gryn, born at Os- 
wego." The son Jacobus was 22 years old when his mother 
married again. Jacobus the younger is thought to have resided 
at Nine Partners, Dutchess county. His son William, who 
was born about 1775, lived at Ghent, Columbia county and so 
did William's son Richard. Jacobus has a number of de- 
scendants at Saratoga Springs, Binghamton and elsewhere; 
among others, Hon. Israel T. Deyo, of Binghamton ; Prof. 
M. L. Deyo, of Albany, and Mr. E. J. Taylor, of Saratoga 
Springs. 

Abr.\iia.m Devo. Sox of Pierre the P.\tektee 

Abraham, the second son of Pierre the Patentee, was born 
at Hurley, October 16, 1676, as shown by a slip from an old 
family record in French, in an old Dutch Bible in the posses- 
sion of Mr. Abm. Deyo of this village. Abraham married Elsie 
Clearwater in 1702 and occupied the homestead in this village. 
He died in 1725. leaving one son, Abraham (2) and two daugh- 
ters, Marytje and Wyntje. IMarytje married Isaac Freer and 
Wyntje married Daniel Hasbrouck. Abraham (2) being the 
only son, kept the homestead in this village. It is uncertain 
whether it was he or his father who built the stone house which 
is still standing and which has come down from one Abraham 
to another almost to the present time, though remodeled a 
generation ago and altogether transformed in 1894 by its 
present owner and occupant, Mr. Abm. Deyo Brodhcad. 

The name of Abraham Deyo (2) appears in an agreement 
with twenty-seven other owners of land, authorizing the Duzine 
to fix title to lands. In another paper in the Patentees' trunk 



262 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 




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THE OLD DEYO HOUSE IN THIS VILLAGE 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 263 

appears the statement that at the time of signing the agreement 
Abraham was tmder age ])Ut acknowledged the signature as 
his vokmtary act. Abraham married EHzabeth DuBois, daugh- 
ter of Isaac, the Patentee. In a tax list of 1765 we find his 
name as one of the largest property owners in the precinct. 
He left a family of five sons — Abraham, Daniel, Simeon, Jona- 
than and riiilii) ; also one daughter. Mary, who married Na- 
thaniel LeFevre of Kettleborough. Four of Abraham's sons 
married LeFevres. All five of the brothers have descendants 
living in Ulster county. It is related by the old people that 
Abraham was a weakly man and that his wife, Elizabeth, who 
is called in Dutch Batche, was a woman of masculine strength 
and spirit and for this reason was called "Captain Batche." 

It is stated that on one occasion one of their slaves, having 
been guilty of impudence, she struck him a ])l()w which broke 
his arm, and there being no doctor in the place she sent him to 
Kingston to have his arm set. Another instance of Captain 
liatche's spirit and physical endurance is the fact that she 
stood in the mow and pitched hay the day before, her son 
Daniel was born. I'^rom 1751 to 1766 Abraham represented 
the family name of Pierre Deyo in the deliberations of the Du- 
zine. It appears that Abraham owned a tract of land on the 
south side of the Paltz patent all the way from the top of the 
mountain to the Hudson river. The houses of three of- his 
sons, Philip, Jonathan and Simeon, were built on this tract, 
Jonathan taking land on the west side of the Wallkill, Philip 
living on the Paltz Plains and Simeon locating a short distance 
south of Highland. Jonathan's son Daniel afterwards located 
on this tract likewise, his house being located on South street 
in the present town of Lloyd. 

We have said that Abraham (2) left a family of five sons. 
These were Abraham (afterwards called Ca]it.). who kept the 



264 HISTORY OF XEJl' PALTZ 

homestead in this village; Daniel, who located at Ireland Cor- 
ners and is the ancestor of the Gardiner and Shawangunk 
Deyos ; Simeon, who located at Highland where he has de- 
scendants living; Jonathan, who lived on the place now owned 
by Miss Smedes on the other side of the W'allkill alxjut a mile 
south of the village ; and Philip, who lived in the house now 
owned and occuj)icd by Josiah Sprague on the Paltz Plains. 

Capt. Abraham Devo 

Capt. Abraham Deyo kept the homestead in this village. 
He was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth LeFevre, 
who left one son. Simon, who died when he was about forty 
years of age. leaving no children. Capt. Abraham married as 
his second wife Maria LeFevre. widow of Isaac LeFevre of 
Bontecoe. She had several children by her previous marriage 
and continued to reside with them at Bontecoe in the old stone 
house on the banks of the W'allkill. As the fruit of the mar- 
riage with Captain Abraham Deyo she bore one son, and died 
not long afterwards. The infant ( who afterwards became 
Judge Abni. A. Deyo, of JModena) was carried on a pillow, 
after the death of his mother, to the residence of his mother's 
brother, Johannes LeFevre, at Kettleborough. Of Capt. Abra- 
ham's record in the Revolutionary war we find that he was 
commissioned first lieutenant in the second New Paltz com- 
pany. Third Ulster County regiment, October 25, 1775, and 
commissioned captain of the second company February 21. 1778. 

SoujiKRS IX Capt. Ah.m. Dkvo's Co.mpanv 

An original document giving the names of a portion of Capt. 
Abraham Deyo's comi)any in the Third Regiment of Ulster 
County Militia in the Revolutionary war follows: 

W'e whose names are hereunto written do herebv acknowl- 



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265 



edg^c to have received of Captain Abraliani Doiau our respec- 
tive wages and billeting money for one month's term of duty 
at the Frontiers (part of months of July and August, 1778), 
we say received respectively in full by us this 19th day of 
September, 1778. 



Isaac DuBois. 
Ezekiel Deyoo. 
Zacharias Hasbrouck. 
John Terwilliger, Jr. 
Josiah Terwilliger, Jr. 
Henry Pontinear. 
Aurt Terwilliger. 
Wm. Sergeant. 
Nathaniel Wallters. 

his 
Benjamin Sluyter. 

mark 
his 
Frederick Hyms 

mark 
Johannes Spratt. 



Abraham Ean. 

his 
Martynes Griffin, 
mark 

Jonathan VanWagenen. 
Robert Hass. 

his 
John York. 

mark 
Benjamin Freer. 
Peter Bevier. 
Jacob Krom. 
John Nees. 
Wm. Dewitt, Jr. 
Jacobus Dewitt. 



Capt. Abm. Deyo's great-great-grandson, Abm. D. Brod- 
head, has in his possession his sword, epaulets and pistols, 
which have always remained in the family. Capt. Abraham's 
tombstone, which stands in the old graveyard in this village, 
bears this inscription : "Capt. Abraham Deyo, who departed 
this life Sept. 12th, 1808, aged 69 years, 6 months and 15 days." 
There is only one other tombstone in the graveyard bearing a 
military title in its inscription. 

When the stone church which preceded the present brick 
edifice was built in 1771, Capt. Abm. Deyo had charge of the 
work, and the papers relating to its building, vvhich arc in the 
Dutch language, are in the possession of Mr. Abm. D. Brod- 



266 H /STORY Of XEll' PALTZ 

head. For a loiifj time after the death of Capt. Deyo the old 
homestead in this village was occupied by Richard Harden- 
bergh, father of Senator Jacob Hardenbergh, who was born 
in this house. Judge Deyo occupied the old house for a time 
and afterwards lived at Modena. He married Margaret, 
daughter of his cousin, Abraham Deyo of Ireland Corners, and 
left two sons, John B. and Abm. A., Jr. Judge Deyo was a 
prominent citizen, a man of extensive means and Supervisor 
of the town of Plattekill for a long period. His son, Sheriff 
Abm. A. Deyo. moved into the old stone house in this village 
when he married and continued to reside there until he was 
elected sheriff and went to Kingston. Sheriff Abraham had 
one son. who was also called Abraham and was the sixth of 
that name in a direct line. He died at the age of about four- 
teen, in Kingston, while his father was sheriff, a few months 
after the family moved from this village in 1858. 

Danikl Devo 

Daniel, the second son of Abm. (2), married Margaret Le- 
Fevre ; after her death he married Catharine Dewitt. of W'a- 
warsing, who left no children. He located at Ireland Corners, 
where his father purchased for him, in 1763. a tract of 500 
acres, being a part of the Garland Patent. The deed for this 
tract is in possession of Andrew L. F. Deyo. 

According to the tradition in the Deyo family, this laml at 
the time of the ]nirchase was occujiied by J. G. Ronk. who had 
built a house and set out an orchard on the place. Not having 
a good title, he gave U]i the property and moved to the New 
Hurley neighborhood to a tract which he had purchased a 
dozen years before and where he afterwards resided. During 
the Revolutionary war Daniel did some service as a teamster, 
going on one occasion with a load of arms to the patriot army 
which was stationed near Philadelphia. 



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267 




HOUSE OF UANIEL UEVO NEAR IREl.ANU CORNERS. 



21')^ HISTORY OF XElf PALTZ 

Daniel Deyo's sister, who had married Nathaniel LeFevre, 
occupied the adjoining farm on the north, known in modern ' 
times as the "Sing" LeFevre place. Daniel left a family of 
three sons, Abm., Xathaniel and Jonathan ; also two daugh- 
ters. Elizabeth, who married IMoses DeWitt and moved to 
Chemung county, and Mary, who married Simon DuBois of 
W'allkill. Daniel divided his land among his three sons, each 
taking about an equal part. Abraham, the oldest son. mar- 
ried Ann Brodhead, sister of Congressman John C. Brodhead. 
Abraham lived in a frame house still standing on what is now 
known as the Daniel Bevier place. He left one son, Daniel A., 
and two daughters, one of whom married Judge Abraham Deyo 
of ISIodena. and the other married Andrew Bevier and left a 
family of four sons — Daniel. Richard, A. Deyo and Dr. Du- 
Bois. Daniel A. Deyo lived for a time on his father's home- 
stead and then sold it to Daniel Bevier and moved to Chicago, 
where he purchased the paw paw grove, near the city. This 
he afterwards sold and returning to the east purchased a farm 
near Balmville. three miles north of Newburgh. This prop- 
erty at Balmville increased greatly in value with the growth 
of Newburgh. as it commanded a fine view of the river. Part 
of it was sold after his death for a large sum. Daniel A. Deyo 
was three times married. His first wife. Elizabeth Elting, 
left but one son, Abm. D., of Tuthill ; his second wife, Nelly 
LeFevre, left two sons. Johannes and Brodhead. and one daugh- 
ter, Cornelia ; his third wife, Arabella Hallock, left a son, 
Thomas J. of W'allkill. and two daughters. 

Jonathan Deyo, son of Daniel, the first settler at Ireland 
Corners, married Mary, daughter of John Charles Harden- 
bergh of Rosendale. Tie occupied all his days the old stone 
house of his father, which is still standing. He left a family 
of five sons. Tohn 11.. Or. Nathaniel. Barzillai and Dr. Abra- 



HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 209 

ham, and two daughters, Jane H. and Mary. The latter mar- 
ried Oscar Xoyes. The son, Nathaniel, located at Nevvburgh, 
where he practiced medicine and there his son John is still 
engaged in the same profession. Another son, Robert E., is 
a prominent lawyer in Xew York City, his office being at 115 
Broadway. 

Nathaniel, the third son of Daniel Deyo, owned and occupied 
the house now the residence of his grandson, Andrew L. F. 
By his first wife, Leah DeW'itt. he had three sons, Daniel, 
Jonathan N. and John. By his second wife, Catharine Har- 
denburgh of Marbletown, he had one daughter, who married 
Thomas K. Jessup of Newburgh. The elder son, Daniel, be- 
came a doctor, but died a young man and left one son, Alfred. 
Jonathan N. kept his father's homestead, which he occupied 
all his da}s. John located in Shawangunk. 

Simeon Deyo 

Simeon, the third son of Abraham (2), was baptized Feb- 
ruary 13. 1743. He married Antjc Low and located about a 
mile south of the present village of Highland, opposite the old 
burying ground and just south of the mill pond. Here about 
1780 he built a stone house as his residence and had a farm 
of about 250 acres. Simeon left a family of three sons, Jacob, 
Abraham and Joseph. The first named, who was born in 1775. 
married Ruth Smith and lived about half a mile south of the 
present village of Highland in a house now occupied by Mrs. 
Lake. This house when built was considered the finest in that 
section of country. Jacob was at one time colonel of militia 
and was usually called colonel. His children were Anna. 
Nathan, Mary Ann. Sarah. Simeon. Eleanor. Anning S., Hiram 
C. and Oliver Hazard Perry. The last named became a min- 
ister, living for many years at Asbury Park, N. J. From him 



270 11 1 STORY OF A/://' PALTZ 

\vc have our intoniialiun concerning; this branch of the family. 
Simeon's son Abraham became a doctor and married Catharine 
DuBois. He died noi long after marriage, leaving one daugh- 
ter. Electa, who married Philip Kiting of Highland. Simeon's 
son Joseph married Julia Kelsey. They left a large family of 
sons and daughters as follows: Reuben, Simeon. Abraham. 
Monroe, Delilah, Eleanor and Rowena. All of these married. 

JoxATn.\N Di:vo 

Jonathan Deyo, fourth son of Abraham (2) married Mary, 
daughter of Daniel LeFevre of Rontecoe. Jonathan lived a 
short time on the Paltz Plains. Rut the lands of his father 
being divided by lot. Jonathan's share fell on the west side of 
the W'allkill, and he took the farm now owned by Miss Smedes. 
His house was of frame and must have been one of the first of 
that material built at Xcw Paltz. This house was torn down 
in 1850. Jiniathan left a family of three sons. Abraham J.. 
Daniel L. and IVter. and three daughters. IClizabeth. who mar- 
ried Henry DuHois; Catharine, who married Wilhelmus Du- 
Bois, and Cornelia, who married Josiah Hasbruuck of Marble- 
town. Jonathan's son. Abraham J., married Maria Deyo and 
moved to what is now the Cold .Spring Corners neighborhood. 
He lived for a while in a log house, and alx)ut 181 2 built tlu 
stone house in which he afterwards resided and which was 
probably the last stone house built in this ttnvn. 

The coiuUry about Cold Spring COrners or (Irahow. as it 
was formerly called, was almost an imbrokeii wilderness tluii. 
but there were no Indians and few wild animals, though at a 
later date Mr. Andries Deyo informs us he has seen deer pas- 
turing on the winter grain. The stone for the house came 
from the I'.ear \'ly and the mortar used in laying up the wall 
came from a field nt-ar l)\ . ilu- I 'anij ^'an<•■ settlement was 



HISTORY OP XEW PALTZ 271 

only about a mile to the cast, but it was not until a later period, 
when others moved in. that the I 'ang' ^'anc^ ]ieo])le acquired 
a re])utation for ihievino". At that tiuK- the residents there 
were poor but honest peo]:)le li\ing- in thatched lot;' houses. 

Daniel L.. the second son of Jonathan Deyo. married Jane 
LeFcvre. They lived on South street, which was then called 
Quaker street in the present town of Lloyd, where their sons, 
Jonathan and John L. afterwards lived. 

Peter, the youngest son of Jonathan Deyo. married Cornelia 
Elting. Peter kept his father's homestead, now the ]\Iiss 
Smedes' place. He afterwards bought of Isaiah Hasbrouck. 
father of Daniel I. Hasbrouck. the farm adjoining on the north, 
wliere his son Ira afterwards lived and his grandson Perry 
afterwards resided. 

I'm Ml' Dkvo 

Philip Deyo. the youngest of the live brothers, sons of Abra- 
ham (2), married Gertrude LeFevre of Kettleborough and 
lived on the Paltz Plains where is now the Josiah Sprague farm. 
The house, part frame and part stone, and still standing, was 
built in the time of the Revolutionary war and it is related that 
nails were so exceedingly difficult to obtain that a visit was 
made to Kingston after that place was burned by the British 
and from the ruins nails were obtained for the new house. 
Philip Deyo was a man of great intelligence and we have this 
saying of Josiah DuPois, "Philip Deyo knew enough to be 
President of the I'nited States." I'hili]) liad a family of seven 
daughters and onlv one son. Andries. who was the \oungest 
of the family. Pie married Catharine Kiting and kejn the 
homestead. Six of the daughters married as follows : Eliza- 
beth married Simon LeFevre, Maria married Abraham J. Deyo, 
Elsie married Andries r.ru\n. Catharine married Andries I-d- 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 




THE HOLSE OF HENDRICUS UEYO AT BONTECOE. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 273 

ting, Sarah married Solomon LcFevrc, Cornelia married Jacob 
G. DuBois. 

The Family of Hendricus Deyo^ Son of Pierre, 
THE Patentee 

Hendricus Deyo, youngest son of Pierre, the Patentee, was 
baptized at Kingston, October 12, 1690. He married at Kings- 
ton, December 31, 171 5, Margaret Von Bummel, who was bap- 
tized at Kingston in 1693. They located at Bontecoe, about 
four miles north of this village. The house, probably built 
by Hendricus, but perhaps by his son Benjamin, is still stand- 
ing on the east bank of the Wallkill and is, we think, the most 
antique and interesting in appearance of all the old houses of 
that period. The homestead was bounded by the Freers on 
the north, and by the LeFevres on the south, and came down 
in the Deyo family almost to the present day, the last owner 
of the Deyo name being Ezekiel I. Deyo, son of Abm. W. Deyo. 

In the old graveyard in this village stands an ancient tomb- 
stone which is quite certainly that of Margaret Van Bummel, 
wife of Hendricus Deyo, son of Pierre, the Patentee. The in- 
scription on this tombstone has proved quite as puzzling as the 
hieroglyphics of Egypt, but the key, when found, unlocks the 
mvstcrious inscription quite as satisfactory as docs Champol- 
lion's key the ancient hieroglyphics. 

The inscription is as follows : 

Anno 

1747 
de 21 FI 

is M. V. B. M. 

E. D. H. O. S. 

H. D. I. 



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HISTORY OF XnW PALTZ 



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k '■ 4.' 



»^ 



TOMBSTONE OK 



MAKGAKET VAN BUMMKl.. \Mtt «.i- lil>N'">l^ I > I'EYO 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 275 

It must bo renienibcrcd that the New Paltz people in 1747 
used the Dutch language. The first three lines are the date, 
the fourth line the initials of the person buried. The letters of 
the fifth line are the initials of the Dutch words "In Den 
Hccrcn Ontslapen'' — "In the Lord Asleep." The final line 
gives the initials of the husband's name, Hendricus Deloo. 
We have seen the name Deyo written Deloo. This explana- 
tion of the inscription is corroborated by the following extract 
from Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois' history of the DuBois family at 
Catskill, as found on page 62, as follows: "Cornelius (Du- 
Bois' ) record of his own wife's death is peculiarly devout : 
it is thus in Dutch, "Ano IJ/S, Mert 2j, is mync vrozv in Den 
Hccrcn Ontslapen." We would read it in English, "March 
27. 1778, Now is my wife sleeping in the Lord." 

In the above record, as given by Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois, 
it will be noted that the same order is observed as on the tomb- 
stone : first the date, then the statement as to who is here 
buried, then the pious epitaph. 

Learned i)ers(ins have ptizzled over this inscription. Altich 
credit for its satisfactory solution is due to r^Irs. Ralph LcFevre. 

Hendricus Deyo ( i ) left a large family of children as fol- 
lows : Debora, Peter. Jr., Isaac, Benjamin, Johannes, Chris- 
toffel, Hagetea, Hendricus, Sara and David. Debora married 
Peter ( )stran(ler and settled with him near New Hurley. Peter, 
Jr.. born in 1718, married Elizabeth Helm in 1745 and settled 
near Tuthill, where we find him a large taxpayer in 1765. 
Isaac, born in 1723. married Agatha Freer. We know nothing 
further concerning him exce]:)t that a son, Daviil, was baptized 
in 1765. Christoffel, born in 1728. married Debora Van Vliet 
and located at Springtown. Their son David, baptized in 1758. 
married Rachel I'^an. Rev. Paul T. Deyo is their grandson. 
Johannes, born in 1726. married Sarah Van Wagenen in 1756 



276 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

and located at Springtown. Hendricus (2), born in 1731, mai 
ried Elizabeth Beem at Kingston October 13, 1753. 

\\'e have no connected genealogy of the family of Hendrici 
(i) except of the three sons: Peter, Jr., Benjamin (who kej 
the homestead at Bontecoe) and Hendricus (2). We will tal> 
up first the Une of Peter, Jr. But we must say that our infoi 
mation concenn'ng him is not complete. 

In a tax list of 1765 we find Peter, Jr., located at what 
now Tuthill and one of the original grants of land in the preset 
town of Shawangunk was to Peter Deyo and son. We ha\ 
not learned as yet who were Peter, Jr.'s children, but Lucz 
Deyo, who lived in 1820 in the house of Philip LeFevre in tl 
Kettleboro neighborhood, was a son. Lucas' wife was a \'a 
Kleeck of Poughkeepsie. They had a large family of boys i 
follows : Ezekiel, Peter, Evert, Francis and Tjerck. Lucj 
Deyo had a brother, who was the father of the late Jacob De\ 
of Tuthill. \\'e do not know his name. 

Hendricus (2). who married Elizabeth Beem. is buried i 
the old Presbyterian graveyard at Highland. We do not kno' 
where he lived. He had only two children who married, x\ 
rest probably dying when young. Those two were Hendrici 
(3), who was baptized at Shawangunk in 1754. and Josepl 
who was baptized at Kingston in 1765. Of Joseph we have 11 
further account. Hendricus (2) must have ended his da) 
with his son, Hendricus (3), at the river, as a tombstone i 
the old Presbyterian graveyard bears the inscription : "Henr 
Deyo died Dec. 12, 1805, 2E 74." This is the oldest gra\ 
marked by a tombstone having a legible inscription and th: 
graveyard is the oldest in the town of Lloyd. 

Hendricus (3) (in English Henry) located in the preset 
town of Lloyd. He married Phebe W'oolsey and long carrie 
on the milling business at the Shadagee. His residence, how 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 277 

ever, was not at the Shadagee, but about two miles south of 
the present village of Highland in a stone house still standing 
on the west side of the road leading from Highland to Modena, 
a short distance south of the old Presbyterian graveyard. 
Henry (3) left a family of six sons and two daughters, all of 
whom married and left families. The sons were Joseph H., 
Henry, John W., Thomas, Elijah and Harvey. The daugh- 
ters were named Clorine and Elizabeth. The former married 
Elidia Watkins. 

Hendricus' (3) large landed estate was divided among his 
sons. 

His sons, Joseph and Henry, occupied adjoining farms, on 
what is now the Highland and Modena turnpike. Joseph mar- 
ried Jane Deyo, daughter of Wm. Deyo of Bontecoe. Joseph's 
property passed to his son, Wm. H. Deyo, who rebuilt and 
greatly enlarged the house. The place is now occupied by 
Geo. C. Brown, w^ho married Wm. H. Deyo's daughter. Jos. 
Deyo's other sons were Noah and George, who settled in Illi- 
nois, and Ennis, who settled near Clintondale. 

Henry Deyo's farm adjoined that of his brother Joseph on 
the north. Henry married Elizabeth L. Bevier. They had a 
large family of ten children, as follows : Caroline, Luther, 
Phebe. Alvah. Elmira. Delia Ann. Emily, Julia, Theora, Eliza- 
beth. All of them married. Caroline married Dewitt Ran- 
som and after his death Alden J. Pratt ; Luther married Fran- 
ces E. Pratt ; Phebe married Abm. Deyo ; Alvah married Lydia 
Chambers ; Elmira married Philip D. LeFcvre ; Julia married 
Philip LeRoy ; Delia Ann married Andrew LeFevre ; Emily 
married Josiah Elting; Elizabeth married Abm. E. Hasbrouck. 

Hendricus' son, John W., married Annie Beesmer. He 
owned what has been of late years George W. Pratt's mill and 
here he carried on the milling business for a long, long time. 



278 HISTORY OF NEW PALIZ 

His children were Phebe Ann, Henry, Woolsey, Emeretta and 

Livingston. Phebe Ann married Goodrich ; Emeretta 

married Barton AVeed : Livingston married Saxton. 

Thomas, son of Hendricus, married Elting, daughter 

of Jolm Elting. He was never engaged in farming. For a 
time he attended to his father's mill at Shadegee. At one time 
he was engaged in the brick manufacturing business and like- 
wise had a store at Pell's dock in partnership, we believe, with 
his brother-in-law, Daniel Woolsey. By his first wife Thomas 
Deyo had one son, Maurice W., from whom we have a great 
portion of the information contained in this sketch. By his 
second wife, Deborah Brown, Thomas Deyo had several chil- 
dren, as follows : Samuel, Margaret, Mary Ann, George and 
Heckaliah. 

Elijah, son of Hendricus (3), was born at Highland in 1798 
and died in 1831. He lived, we believe, in the town of Platte- 
kill. Elijah married Patty Thomas. Their children were 
Henry, who lived at Clintondale ; Theron, who also lived at 
Clintondale and afterwards at Highland, and Philip T., who 
has lived for nearly thirty years at Binghamton and from whom 
we have this information concerning his family. 

Harvey, the last son of Hendricus, married Ellen Tooker and 
had three children, Charles, Anna and Maria. 

Going back now to the homestead at Bontecoe, Benjamin, son 
of Hendricus (i), kept the homestead. He left four sons, 
William. Abram, Benjamin and John (called Hons in Dutch). 

William lived in what has been of late years the Oscar 
Tschirkey place. He married Sarah, daughter of Roelif J. 
Elting of this village, and left a large family of sons and 
daughters, as follows : William W., Abm. W., Cornelius, 
Ezekiel, Roelif, IMaria, Jane, Sarah, Bridget, Catharine and 
Rebecca. All of these married. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 279 

Benjamin lived near Si)rin,G;to\vn. He was the father of 
DeWitt Deyo of Springtown. and Tjerck and David of Mid- 
dletown. Abram hved on what is now the Evert Schoonmaker 
place. He married his cousin, a Freer, and had but one child, 
who left no children. John lived part of the time on the Abm. 
W. Deyo place; part of the time on the Evert Schoonmaker 
place and also in the stone house east of the Bontecoe school- 
house. His wife was Catrina Kritsinger. His sons were 
Stephen. Benjamin I„ John, Levi, Moses and Christian of 
Rochester. 



28o HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 



CHAPTER XXIV 

The DuBois Family at Xi:\v Paltz 

Louis DuBois, the leader of the Huguenot settlers at New 
Paltz, was born at Wicres, near Lille, in the province of Artois 
(in French Flanders), October 2j, 1626. The farm of his 
father Crctien is still pointed out. 

Louis moved to Manheim, on the Rhine, the capital of the 
Palatinate or Paltz, a little principality, now incorporated in 
Baden, and there he married Catharine Blanshan, the daughter 
of Matthew Blanshan. a burgher residing there. 

To Louis DuBois and his wife there were born a numerous 
family of children, as follows : Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, 
David, Solomon, Louis, Matthew. Other children died before 
reaching mature years. Of these children Abraham and Isaac 
were born at Manheim and the rest in Ulster county. iSIan- 
heim was at that time a refuge for the Protestants from the 
neighboring parts of France, and Baird in his "Huguenot 
Emigration," says that the LeFevres, Hasbroucks, Crispells, 
etc.. were associated with Louis DuBois at Manheim. The 
exact date of the emigration to America and the name of the 
ship arc not known, but the time was certainly between 1658 
and 1661. At the latter date he was residing at Hurley, and 
his third son, Jacob, was presented for baptism at the church 
at Kingston, as still shown by the church register, that being 
one of the earliest entries. In 1663, June 10. Hurley and part 
of Kingston were burned by the Indians, and the wife of Louis 
DuBois, with three children, were among those carried away 
captive. Three months afterwards an expedition under Cap- 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 281 

tain Crieg-er recovered the captives, surprising the Indians at 
their fort, near the Hogabergh, in Shawangunk. According 
to the tradition the discovery of the lowlands along the Wallkill 
during this expedition led to the settlement at New Paltz in 
1678. 

Louis DuBois was the first elder of the church here, and 
the first entry in the church register commencing in 1683, still 
in existence, is in his hand writing. In 1686 Louis DuBois 
returned from New Paltz to Kingston, where he bought a 
house and resided ten years, until his death in 1696. This 
house stood at the north-west corner of John street and Clinton 
avenue, near the late residence of F. L. Westbrook. 

About two years before Louis DuBois moved from Kings- 
ton to New Paltz his brother Jacques came to America. He 
died soon after, in 1676. His descendants located in Dutchess 
county. 

Not long before his death Louis deeded to his youngest 
son, Matthew, a certain tract of land in Kingston. The orig- 
inal document is in the possession of Mr. Julius Schoonmaker 
and is as follows : 

To all Christian people To whom this Shall or May Come 
Lowies dubois of Kingston in ye County of ulster and 
Catharina his wife Sendeth greeting. 

Whereas the said Lowies duboys and Catharine his Wife for 
Divers good Causes and Considerations them thereunto moving 
but more & Especially for and Inconsideration of a Certaine 
Summe or quantity of One thousand and five hundred Schuyp- 
ples of Wheat to them in hand payd before the Ensealing 
and Delivery of these presents by Alatthew duboys Jongest 
Sunn of them the said Lowies duboys & Catharina his Wife 
have Bargained, Sold, alienated enfeofed, assigned and Sett- 



282 HISTORY Of XEW PALTZ 

over, aiid by tliese presents doe Bargain, Sell, alienate Enfeofe 
assign and Settover inito the Said Matthew Duboys the Right 
halfe of ye Certaine tract or parcell of Land Situate, Lying & 
being iippon hooly peece betwixt the Land of Hyman & Jan Roos 
and the Land of Lammert huylandss and now in the possession 
of Jacob duboys. Likewise a house, barne & lot of ground in 
ye towne of Kingstowne betwixt the housing & ground of Coll. 
Henricus Beekman & Saloman Duboys. Likewise a small 
piece of pasture Land to ye east side of the towne of Kings- 
towne afous'd betwizt ye ground of sd Henricus Beekman and 
Wessel Ten Broeck ; To have and to hold the said tract or Parcel 
of Land, house and lot of ground and pasture Land unto the 
Said Matthew Duboys his heirs and assigns and to the Only 
proper use benefit and behoofs of him the Said Matthew Du- 
boys his heirs and assigns for ever, and the Said Matthew 
Duboys to Enter in peaceable possession of ye Said Land When 
hee shall Come to ye age of one & twenty years, and the house, 
pasture Land, &c., O — after the Decease of them the Said 
Lowies Duboys and Catharina his Wife have hereunto Sett 
their hands and Affixed their seals. 

In Kingstowne this 22d day of February, 1695-6. 

Lowies du boys, (seal) 
Catharina duboys. (seal) 

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in tlie ]iresence of 

Jan Burhans, 
Marttys Slecht. 
W. D. Myer. 

Tn tin- presence of Me 

Jacob Rutsen. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 283 

The last will of Louis DuBois, as recorded in the Surrogate's 
office of the County of New York, is in Dutch, dated March 
26, 1694, and was proved July 13, 1697. A previous will is 
as follows, made at the time of his removal from New Paltz 
to Kingston : 

In the name of God, Amen, the one and thirtieth day of 
March, Anno Domini. 1686, I, Louis Du bois, of the New Paltz 
in the County of Ulster, being both sound in body and of good 
and perfect memory, thanks be to the Almighty, and calling 
to remembrance the uncertain Estate of this transitory life, 
and that all flesh must yield unto death whom it shall please 
God to call ; doe make, constitute, ordain and declare this my 
last will and testament, in manner following : Revoking and 
annuling, by these presents, all and every testament and testa- 
ments, will and wills, hertofore by me made and declared either 
by word or writing, and this to be my last will and testament. 
Imprims : I will that all my just debts shall be paid within a 
convenient time after my decease, and what there shall be 
found afterwards belonging to my Estate, shall be equally 
dealt among my children ! but my two oldest sons desiring to 
have each of them a part of the land of the New Paltz, more 
than the other sons by reason their names are upon the Patent, 
but they will be content to deale equally with my other children, 
whether in land, houses, or any other sort of goods whatso- 
ever belonging to my said Estate, as well as the lands of the 
Paltz that I have bought for me and after my death and their 
mother's decease, shall be dealt equally amongst them, (to 
wit.) Three parts lying and being situated in the New Paltz, 
but if they (to wit ) my two eldest sons will each of them have 
a part of the land lying in the New Paltz. they may have it 
after myn and their mother's death, with condition they shall 
pay for the said land with all the interest of the same, unto the 



284 H I STORY O F N E IV PALTZ 

other of niv chiUlreii. and shall not inherit any of the other 
land, houses, or any other sort of goods belonging to my said 
Estate, but them that have house lots and have built thereon, 
shall keep the same upon condition that the other of my chil- 
dren shall have so much land instead thereof, in such con- 
venient places as may be found most expedient for them in 
any place belonging to my said Estate. Myn wife, their 
mother, shall have the ordering of the Estate, that is to say, to 
have the profits and perquisites of the same, so long as she re- 
maineth the widow, but in case she cometh to remarry, that she 

shall have the one right half of the whole Estate, either lands, 
houses, or any other goods or chattels, whatsoever belong to 
my said Estate, and the other half shall be amongst the chil- 
dren aforesaid, equally dealt, except my two eldest sons, which, 
if they will have the Lotts above mentioned, must pay for the 
same with the interest of the said land, and shall have no other 
part in my said Estate, that is my last will and testament and 
no other, in witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and 
seal the day and year first above written. Louvs du bois. 

Signed and sealed in presence of 

Arent Tennisson, 
T)irck Schepmocs. 

Entered ui^on record i<;th May. 1686. 

Examined per John Ward. 

D'p't Cl'k. 

Louis was not only a very extensive land owner but a money 
lender likewise, and the writer has in his possession several 
receipts in his handwriting and with his signature for loans 
repaid to Louis in his later years. 



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RECEIPTS WITH SIGN'ATURE OF I.OIIS Dl" ISOIS. THE I'ATENTEE 



286 HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

Some time after Ikt Inisbancrs death, and when she was about 
63 years of age, Louis' widow married Jean Cottin, a very 
worthy Huguenot, wlio kept a store at Kingston and had been 
previously the schoohnaster at New Paltz. 

In the year 1703 we find recorded in the church book at 
Kingston the following interesting entry in the list of bap^ 
tisms. under date of September 5th : 

"Rachel after profession of her faith she received 

the sacrament t^f holy l)ai)tism. aged 17 years. Besides the 
points required of her in the formula of baptism she also 
promised the congregation to serve her mistress Catharine 
Cottyn faithfully and diligently until the death of her mistress 
and after that to serve her master Jan Cottyn and after that 
she shall be at liberty and free." 

The old Dutch dominie, who recorded all this in the church 
book, performed a valuable deed for history and for the de- 
scendants of Louis Duljois, the Patentee. Usually the church 
record contained simply the name of the child baptised, the 
parents, and sponsors ; but here we have the evidence that the 
woman who. in her early married years, saved her life by 
singing a psalm, while the savages w'ere preparing to burn 
her at the stake, now in her old age manumitted her negro 
woman. This is j^erhaps the very first recorded instance in 
this country of the freeing of a slave. 

Louis Dul»ois. the Patentee, had been dead seven years; 
after his death his widow had married that good old French 
merchant of Kingston, Jean Cottin, who when he died left all 
his property to the ehurcli. The families of her seven sons, 
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Davitl, Solomon, Louis. Jr.. and Mat- 
thew, were living at Xew Paltz, Rochester. Hurley and Kings- 
ton. l)ut it was to none of these that her negro girl should go 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 287 

as a slave. Mrs. Cottin was an old woman. It was not to be 
supposed in the course of nature that she or her husband could 
live many years. In all probability by the time the negro girl 
reached the age of 25 she became a free woman by the act of 
her mistress. 

We have said that Louis' sons were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 
David, Solomon, Louis and Matthew. 

Of these sons Matthew settled in Kingston, where his de- 
scendants still reside. David located in the town of Rochester, 
where he left a line of descendants. Jacob settled on a farm 
of his father in old Hurley, where he left a large family, and 
his second son, Louis, settled in Monmouth county, N. J., and 
was the father of Rev. Benj. DuBois of Revolutionary fame. 
Patterson DuBois of Philadelphia is of Jacob's line. The other 
four sons, Abraham, Isaac, Solomon and Louis, Jr., remained 
at New Paltz. Although Isaac was only about 18 years of 
age and his brother Abm. hardly 21, they were both associated 
with their father as members of the 12 patentees of New Paltz 
in 1677. 



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DOCLMKNT WITH SIGNATURE OF ABRAHAM DU BOIS, THE PATENTEE 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 289 



CHAPTER XXV 

Abraham DuBois, the Patentee 

Abraham DuBois married Margaret Deyo, daughter of 
Christian Deyo, the Patentee. They left a family of children, 
the eldest of whom, also named Abraham, was baptised in 
1685. He settled in the County of Somerset, N. J. There was 
but one other son, Joel, who died in 1734 and left no family. 
One daughter of Abm. DuBois, the Patentee, married Roelif 
Elting, the first of the name at New Paltz ; another daughter, 
Katharine, born in 1693, married Wm. Donalson and located 
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Another daughter, Leah, 
married Philip Ferrie and moved with him to Lancaster county, 
Pa., where her father had obtained a patent for 1,000 acres of 
land. Another daughter. Rachel, married her cousin, Isaac, 
son of Solomon DuBois, and likewise moved to Lancaster 
county, Pennsylvania. 

Abm. DuBois was the last survivor of the 12 patentees of 
New Paltz, a fact that is stated on his tombstone, which is still 
standing in the old graveyard in this village. He died in 1731. 

Among the old records at Albany is an abstract of the will 
of Abm. DuBois, survivor of the New Paltz Patentees. The 
will, which was probated in 1731, mentions the wife Margaret, 
the sons Abraham and Joel, the daughters Sara (wife of Roelif 
Eltinge) Leah (wife of Philip Ferree) Rachel and Catharine. 
The will disposes of land on the Raritan in New Jersey, on the 
south side of the Paltz River (Walkill) at New Paltz, at Can- 
istoga and house and lot at New Paltz ; also personal property. 



290 II/STORV OF XEJl' PALTZ 

The executors are the sun Abraham aiul the soii-iii-hiw RoeHf 
Eltinge.'x Daniel DuBois is one of the witnesses. 

Edmund Eltinge had in his possession two ancient documents 
relating to Abram DuBois and his children. One of them is 
an inventory containing a "true and perfect description of all 
ye goods, rights and credits of Joel Dubois, late of the county 
of Ulster in ye province of New York, deceased, taken by 
Abraham DuBois of ye county of Summerset, in the province 
of New Jersey, husbandman, the only brother and administrator 
of the said Joel DuBois, deceased, this twenty-first day of June 
in the eight year of his magisty's reign, anno dom, 1734.' 

The other paper in Mr. Edmund Eltinge's possession was a 
release from the heirs of Abraham DuBois, the Patentee, to 
Roelif Elting and wife, dated A. D. 1732 and signed by 

W'm. Donaldson, 
Katharina Donaldson, 
Rachel Douboys, 
Abraham Duboys, 
Lea ferric, 
Joel Duboies, 
Philip ferrie. 

Captain R. C. DuBois, of Washington, D. C, in 1890 
visited New Paltz to gather material for a history of the family 
of Louis DuBois. and in particular the descendants of his son 
Abram, the last survivor of the New Paltz Patentees, on his 
return stopping in Somerset county, N. J., where Abram, son 
of the New Paltz Patentee of the same name, removed and 
located. 

Capt. DuBois says: 

I found the old stone house of Abm. DuBois. son of the 
New Paltz Patentee, still standing and tx'cupicd. looking as if 



HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 291 

it might withstand the heavy hand of centuries yet to come. 
It stands within the shadow of the mountain from the heights 
of which Washington watched the movements of Lord Howe 
and the British in the attempts of the latter to reach Philadel- 
phia. T found also that two of the grandsons of Abram the 
Second were in the service and on the right side. 

Another grandson made the first dies for the mint at Phila- 
delphia. Thus one of the descendants of Louis and Abram 
DuBois helped to lay the foundation for the U. S. Mint, which 
was not established until about nine years later. 



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niMliSToNK OF AHKAHAM UU BOIS, THE PATENTEE 



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CHAPTER XXVI 

The Family of Isaac DuBois, One of the New Paltz 

Patentees 

Isaac DuBois, the second son of Louis, was the youngest of 
the New Paltz patentees. He was born at Manheim about 
1659. He was about two years old when his ])arents came 
to Kingston, and about eighteen years old when they came to 
New Paltz. In 1683 he married, at Kingston, Alary, daughter 
of Jean Hasbrouck, the Patentee. Seven years afterwards he 
died "at his home in Paltz." as is briefly stated in the church 
book, leaving two sons, Daniel, born April 28, 1684, and Philip, 
born in 1690; another son, Benjamin, having died young. 
Daniel's baptism is the first one recorded on the old French 
church book at New Paltz. Of the son Philip we have no 
further account except that he married Esther, daughter of 
Peter Gumaer of Minnisinck, settled at Rochester and left no 
son. One daughter, Esther, married Louis Bevier of Marble- 
town. Daniel married, June 8, 171 3, Mary, daughter of Simon 
LeFevrc, the Patentee. 

The following release from Mary, widow of the Patentee, 
to her son Daniel is found among the old papers in the family : 

Know all men by these presents that I Mary Dubois of the 
new Paltz in County of Ulster widdow and Relict of Isaac 
Dubois late of the same place deceased for divers good Causes 
me thereunto moving but more and Especially for a Compe- 
tent sume of good and Lawful money to me in hand paid by 
my son Daniel Dubois of the new paltz aforesaid have given 
granted Released devised and forever quit claimed and do 



294 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

hereby Release and forever quit claim inito the sd Daniel 
Dubois his heirs and assigns forever all my ritcht title claim 
interest and demand whatsoever which I now have or might 
could or ought to have of out in or to all and singular the real 
estate of lands and buildings situate and being within the 
bounds and limits of the township of new paltz which did 
belong unto my said deceased husband in his lifetime to have 
to hold the same unto the said Daniel Dubois his heirs and 
assigns forever to the sole and only proper use benefit and 
behoof of him the said Daniel Dubois his heirs and assigns 
forever In witness whereof the said Mary Dubois hath here- 
unto putt her hand and seale in the new paltz this fourteenth 
day of February, annoy Dom. 1718-9. 

Mary Dubois, 
her M mark. 

Sealed and delivered In the presence of us. 

Solomon dubois, 
Louis bevier le jun, 
W. Nottingham. 

Danikl, Son of Isaac 

In 1705 Daniel built the old stone house or fort which is still 
standing, with its iron figures, showing the date of erection, 
and the port holes in the eastern walls f(ir safety against In- 
dian attacks, and the window high up on the western wall. 
We find Daniel's name in the list of freeholders in 1728: also 
in the release from the proprietors of the Paltz Patent to Solo- 
mon Dul'.ois, in 1729. Daniel died in 1755. His tombstone 
in the old graveyard in this village bears simply the date and 
the initials D. D. B. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 295 




THE t)I.I) DU liOlS HUL'SE OR FOKT IN THIS VILLAGE 



296 HISTORY OF NEW I'ALTZ 

Among^ the old family papers is found a will of Daniel, in 
French, dated in 1729. The writing is very plain and legible. 
Another will, in English, is dated 1747 and is as follows: 

In the Name of God amen the twelve day of September in 
the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & 
forty seven I Daniel Dubois of the new palyes in the County 
of Ulster and province of New York being sick of body but 
sound memory and understanding Praised be God for it Calling 
to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is ap- 
pointed for all men once to die and being Desirous to Settle 
things in order Do Revoke all former wills and Testaments by 
me in any ways and manner before this time made named 
willed Devised and bequeathed Ratified and Confirm this and 
no other to be. my last will and Testament That is to say Prin- 
cipaly and first of all I Give and bequeath my Immortal Soul 
into the hands of almighty God my Creator that Gave it hoping 
by the meritorious Death and passion of Jesus Christ my sole 
Saviour and only Redeemer to Receive pardon and full Re- 
mission for all my Sins and my body to the Earth from whence 
it Came to be buried in Christian Like & Decent manner at the 
Discretion of my Executors herein named & nominated nothing 
Doubting l)ut I shall Receive the same again at the General 
Day of Resurrection by the almighty power of God, and as 
touching such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless 
me with in this world I give Devise and Dispose of the same 
in the following manner and form Imprimis I do order and 
appoint that my Just and Honest Debts be by my Executors 
within Convenient time paid and satisfied Item it is my will 
and order that my two sons Benjamin and Isaac Dubois Shall 
have as good an outfit as my Son Simon has had Item 1 give 
and Bequeath unto I\Iaritie my dearly beloved wife all n\\ whole 
Estate real and personal during lu-r natural Lifetime and after 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 297 

her decease to be divided among my children as Shall be here- 
after ordered and mentioned in this my last will and Testament 
Item I give and bequeath unto my eldest Son Benjaipin Dubois 
his heirs and assigns for Ever first out of my stock of horses 
one horse the choice of all my horses in Consideration as being 
my eldest son on which account he shall not have or pretend 
to have any thing more by any ways or pretences whatsoever 
Item I give and bequeath unto my Three Sons all the rest of 
of my stock of horses to be Equally divided amongst them share 
and share alike Item I give and bequeath unto my four chil- 
dren all my Remainder and Remainders of all my Estate Real 
and personal to be equally divided amongst them share and 
share alike Each and equal fourth part of all my Estate that 
is to say to my Son Benjamin Dubois his heirs and assigns for 
Ever one fourth part of my Estate to my son Simon Dubois 
his heirs and assigns for Ever one fourth part of my Estate 
to my son Isack Dubois his heirs and assigns for Ever one 
fourth part of my estate to my daughter Elizabeth wife of 
Abraham doyoe to her heirs and assigns for Ever one fourth 
part of my estate Item it is my will and order that if any of 
my children shall come to die without having any Lawful 
children then that share or fourth part shall be divided into 
Three equal Shares amongst the rest of my children to them 
their heirs and assigns for Ever and in case any of tiie Brothers 
or Sisters being dead and Leaving children behind them their 
children shall have their fathers or mothers share shall be 
divided amongst the Children share and share alike Item I 
do order constitute and appoint my wife IMarietie and my four 
children as follows — Benjamin Dubois Simon Debois Isack 
Dubois and my daughter Elizabeth doyoe above named to be 
my Executors of this my last will and Testament and that 
every part and parcel hereof may be performcMl and fnlfilltd 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 299 

In witness wlicrct)!' I have IktcuuIo put my hand and seal the 
day and year above written. 

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the 
Said Daniel DuBois to be his last will and testament In 
the presence of 

Samuel Bevier 

daniel hasbrouck Daniel Dubois [s | 

Charles Brodhead 

Josia Eltinge. 

Simon DuBois 

Daniel left three sons, Simon, Isaac and Benjamin, and one 
daug;hter. Elizabeth, who married Abraham Deyo (2) and 
lived with him in this village. We know nothing further 
concerning Isaac. Simon married Catharine LeFevre and kept 
the homestead of his father. Benjamin married Maria Bevier 
and lived either at Springtown or in the stone house still stand- 
ing on the farm adjoining the Peter D. LeFevre place on the 
south. In the list of slaveholders, in 1755, Simon DuBois is 
mentioned as the owner of three male and three female slaves 
and Benjamin the owner of three slaves. In the tax list of 
1765 we find Simon assessed for £42 and Benjamin for £29. 
We find Simon's name as one of the Duzine in 1772. The old 
homestead in this village has remained in the possession of 
Simon's family until the present day. We have in our pos- 
session an ancient paper, being the official record of the town 
election at New Paltz, in 1749, which was held at the house 
of Simon Dul'ois. and contains his signature. It is endorsed 
"Paltz election 1749. filed May 2d." It is in English antl a 
transcript is as follows : 

At the annual election of the freeholders and Inhabitants of 
the township of the New Paltz on the first Tuesday of April 



300 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Annoq : Doin : 1749 the following^ persons were duoly chosen 
and elected by a phiraHty of \'oices of said towns frceliolders 
to serve the said town in the soovrall offices which tliey were 
chosen is as followeth V't : 

Constable — Jacobns Bovicr. 
Supervisor — Abraham Hardonborgh. 

I Evort terwellego. 

Assessors -^ y • t-i • 

( Josias hltnige. 

Collector — Noah Eltinf^e. 

Surveyors of Highway — Petrus Low. 

I Abraham Rosa. 

Overseers of the Poor - . , , r r 

/ Abraham Lesiover. 

1 Josias Eltinge. 

Fence \'iewers a Isaac Freer. 

v Hendrikus Dubois. 

The Election was Koop l\v mo the under ^^'^itton Simon 
Dubois as Constable Pme. Simon Dubois. 

There are a number of other papers of Simon DuBois that 
have come down in the family until the present day and have 
been stored in the i^ld trunk for perhaps 150 years. Simon 
Dubois' sons were Joseph. Daniel (called \'elche), who kept 
the homestead in this village: Isaac and Andries. the two latter 
being twins. Simon also had one daughter. Cornelia, who mar- 
ried Josaphat Hasbrouck. and another daughter. Mary, who 
married Jacobus Rose. 

Daniel married Catharine Bcssimer. They had no children. 
The old homestead in his day is described as an old-fashioned 
one-story house with a basement, the entrajice to which was 
directly otT the street. An old gentleman informs us that 
when he was a bov there was no tire in the church on Sundays 



IIISrORY OP NEW PALTZ 301 

and it was customary for ])coplc to have foot-stoves to keep 
warm while attendiiifilf Divine service. At the DuBois house 
a good lire of hickory wood was kept burning on Sunday morn- 
ing that people might have good coals to put in the foot-stoves. 

Isaac, son of Simon and brother of Daniel, married Rebecca 
Deyo. They lived for a time at what has been of late years 
the Wm. E. DuRois place, where they had a grist mill. They 
then moved to Chenango county, but not liking the country 
there moved back to Ulster county. It is related that Mrs. 
DuBois in going to Chenango, aided by pushing on the wagon 
at different places, and in returning was so desirous of getting 
back to Ulster county that she lent her aid in 'the same manner. 
After coming back from Chenango Isaac built what is now the 
Nathan Townsend house at Centerville, where he lived a long 
time and ended his days. This house was built of stone, but 
has been since sided over. 

In the Revolutionary War Isaac served as a private in Capt. 
Abraham Deyo's company in the Third Ulster County Regi- 
ment. Isaac DuBois left four sons : Joseph, who lived on South 
street in the town of Lloyd and afterwards moved to INIichigan; 
Simon, who kept his father's homestead, now the Nathan 
Townsend place at Centerville; Daniel who took the place of 
his uncle Daniel in this village; and Henry 1.. who lived at 
Ohioville. Simon, at Centerville, was twice married. By his 
first wife he had one son, Abraham, who sold the house to 
Nathan Townsend and bought a farm in the Grahow neigh- 
borhood. By his second wife, whose maiden name was Poyer, 
Simon had two daughters. 

Daniel DuBois always lived in the homestead of his fathers 
in this village wdiich had come to him from his uncle Daniel. 
He married Magdalene Hasbrouck. Daniel's children were 
lohn W'.. Daniel. .Melissa, who married I'n'njainin Kelvea, and 



302 II I STORY OF XEW P.-ILTZ 

Mary, whose heirs now own and occupy the old homestead. 
Daniel rebuilt the old stone house, but the walls of the lowei 
portion of the house have been left unchan.s^ed and tlie port 
holes in the eastern and northern walls remain to the present 
day. 

Andries DuBois 

Isaac's twin brother, Andries, located at Highland where he 
had a mill, now the Philip Schantz mill. His wife was Alary 
Deyo, sister of his brother Isaac's wife. Andries was a stone 
mason and with his own hands ])uilt the stone house in which 
he lived and which is still standing. Andries left but one son, 
Joseph, who died in the army in the war of 1812, leaving one 
daughter, who married Daniel Tooker of Marlborough. An- 
dries had four daughters: Phebe. married Job G. "Elmore; 
Ellen, married Reuben Deyo; Elizabeth, married Samuel Dun- 
can ; Rachel, married Arthur Doren and kept the mill, and 
Catharine, married Dr. Deyo and after his death Isaac Craft. 

Hon. Andrew E. Elmore, of Fort Howard. Wis., was born 
in tlie old stone house of his grandfather, Andries DuBois, 
and was named for him. I""rom .Mr. Elmc^re we have our in- 
formation concerning this liranch of the family. At the age of 
eighty-one Mr. Elmore visited the National capital, and on his 
return stopped at Highland to visit his old home. He likewise 
drove to New Paltz to see friends and to take another look at 
the old DuBois house, the house of his mother's ancestors, and 
in the attic of which, before it was rebuilt, he had slept when 
a child. 

Joseph DuBois 

Joseph, the youngest son of Simon and brother of Daniel, 
Isaac and Anrlries, married Mar\' Ilardenburgh and lived al)out 



HISTORY Of.\hirFALJZ 303 

two miles north of this village on what has been known of late 
years as the Moses P. LeFevre i)lacc. Joseph had one son, 
Hardenburgh, and one daughter who married Daniel Bevier 
of Ireland Corners. Hardenburgh kept store for a time, about 
1830, in what is now thQ Huguenot bank building. 

Benjamin DuBois 

We will now go back to Benjamin, grandson of Isaac the 
Patentee and son of Daniel. Benjamin left his brother Simon 
in possession of the homestead in this village and located on 
the other side of the Wallkill in the Springtown neighborhood. 
His wife was Maria Bevier. Benjamin's children were Daniel, 
who married Catharine LeFevre ; Anna, who married Petei 

Freer; Abraham, who married Bevier, and Samuel, 

who married Jane LeFevre. All located in the town of New 
Paltz as it then existed, and in the Springtown neighborhood 
their descendants lived. — some of them till the present time. 
Benjamin's oldest son, Daniel, married Catharine LeFevre and 
lived in the old stone house adjoining the Peter D. LeFevre 
place on the south, and here his only son, Abraham, lived after 
him. A little story that dates back about 100 years illus- 
trates the customs of those times. Daniel's cousin Isaac, son 
of Simon, had come to visit him. Each had a horse of which 
he was proud and each claimed that his own horse was the 
better of the two. So to settle the question the two cousins, 
both of whom were then old men, decided to have a test on the 
ice on the Wallkill at once. The horses were hitched up forth- 
with, but the (piestion as to which had the better horse was 
never settled as one horse fell into an air hole and was drowned. 

Abraham, who was Daniel's only son. married Anna Le- 
Fevre of Bloomingdale. He died in middle age. His sons 
were Daniel A., .^imon L., Benjamin and Samuel, .'\brnham 



304 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

had a daughter who married Maurice Hasbrouck, another 
married Alexander Elting and another married Mathusalem 
Wurts. The two last named moved to the vicinity of Auburn 
in western New York. The fourth daughter, Margaret, re- 
mained unmarried and was the last survivor of the family. 



H I S TOR y Ol' A' E IV PALTZ 305 

CHAPTER XXVII 

Solomon DuBois^ Son of Louis the Patentee 

Solomon DuBois was bom in 1670, while his parents re- 
sided in Hnrlev. lie married, about 1692, Tryntje Gerritson, 
who was the daughter of Gerrit Cornelissen. Solomon built 
his house near where Capt. W. H. D. Blake now resides. He 
died in 1759 at the great age of 89 years. We do not know 
where he is buried. Solomon was a man of much influence, 
was an oflicer in the Xew Paltz church, occupied civil trusts, 
and accmnulated mucli landed property not only at New Paltz, 
but in Greene county and at Perkiomen, Chester county, now 
Lancaster county, Pa. Louis DuBois, the Patentee, received 
June 2, 1688, from Gov. Dongan, a patent for a large tract of 
land, on which his sons Solomon and Louis Jr. located, lying 
on both sides of the Wallkill. Solomon's house, built on this 
tract, was quite probably the first house built outside of the 
village. From a tax list laid by the provincial government, 
which included a tax on chimneys, it appeared that Solomon's 
house had two chimneys. 

Outside of our village there is no place in Southern Ulster 
of more interest to the antiquarian than this farm occupied by 
Capt. W. H. D. Blake. This neighborhood was called by our 
grandfathers by the Indian name of Poughwoughtenonk. Here, 
on the patent granted to Louis DuBois, his sons, Solomon and 
Louis, Jr., lived. Here stood the Conferentie church just 
before the Revolution. Across the Wallkill. at the mouth of 
the Plattekill. was the last Indian village in this vicinity. The 
homestead of Louis DuBois. Jr., who resided a short distance 
20 



3o6 II I STORY 01' .\ EW PALTZ 

soutli. was broken up and passed out of the family lonjj^, long 
ago. The site of the house even can not be determined. But 
the homestead of his brother Solomon descended from genera- 
tion to generation of DuBoises till about 1880. 

Josiah DuBois is still well remembered. He lived to be 87 
years of age and in his olden days loved to tell of the days of 
our forefathers. The writer has still a very distinct recol- 
lection of a visit to Uncle Josiah's home in his early childhood 
and of the stories he told of the old times and old people. 
Even to the present day a considerable portion of the stories 
of the olden times are related on the authority of Josiah DuBois. 

The homestead at Poughwoughtenonk has passed out of the 
possession of the DuBois family, but it has a worthy owner in 
Capt. W. H. D. Blake, who seems to possess all the love of the 
ancient traditions of Josiah DuBois, who in 1822 built the 
brick house in which Capt. Blake now resides. 

Near the bank of the Wallkill a short distance up the stream 
is the cellar of the house of Solomon DuBois. The knocker 
on the door always bore the initials S. D. B. From Solomon 
this house passed to his son, Cornelius, Sr., who left a rather 
singular will, providing that his only son, Cornelius. Jr., should 
have all his real estate during his life time, but after his death 
his six sisters or their heirs should have their share. The 
landed estate amounted to about 3,000 acres, lying on both 
sides of the Wallkill. One of the daughters of the first Cor- 
nelius, named Sarah, had married Jacob Hasbrouck of Marble- 
town. Under the arrangement for the division of the Pough- 
woughtenonk estate her son. Dr. Cornelius Hasbrouck. the 
father of Mrs. Peter Barnhart, deceased, of New Paltz, be- 
came the owner of tliis old house, which was torn down in his 
time. 

Solomon left a familv of four sons and four daughters. 



II I STORY OF NEW PALTZ 307 

The sons were Isaac, who settled at Perkiomen, Pa., Benjamin, 
who settled at Catskill, and Cornelius and Hendricus, who 
settled on their father's estate in Ulster county. Solomon's 
daughters married as follows : Jacomyntje married her cousin 
Barent, son of Jacob ; Sarah married Simon Van Wagenen, 
New Paltz ; Helena married Josiah Elting of New Paltz, and 
Catharine married Peter Low of New Paltz. 

The name of Solomon DuBois appears with the title of 
lieutenant in the documentary history of New York, Vol. Ill, 
page 972, and he is credited with active miUtary service. 

Solomon's son Isaac, who settled at Perkiomen, Lancaster 
county, Pennsylvania, married his cousin Rachel, daughter of 
Abraham, the Patentee. They left no sons, but had a family 
of four daughters, Catharine, Margaret, Rebecca and Eliza- 
beth. One of the descendants of Isaac DuBois is Mr. Samuel 
E. Gross of Chicago, who has shown himself one of the warm- 
est friends of the New Paltz Huguenot Memorial Society. 

Solomon's son Benjamin married, in 1721, Catharine Suy- 
lant and settled at Catskill in what was then a portion of 
Albany county about 1727. 

They had a large family of children, several of whom were 
born before their location at Catskill. The sons were Petrus, 
Benjamin, Solomon, Huybartus, Cornelius and Isaac. 

The DuBois family flourished at Catskill. But it is not the 
purpose of this book to trace the fortunes of the New Paltz 
families outside of Ulster county. 

A carcfull}-written history of the descendants of Benjamin 
DuBois of Catskill has been published by one of their number, 
Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois. who is spending an honored old age 
at Newburgh. 

We resume now the thread of our narrative concerning the 
family at Poughwoughtenonk. 



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HISTORY OF Miir PALTZ 




REV. DR. ANSON DU BOIS 



HISTORY OF Xllir PALTZ 309 

The matter of makings fjood the title of Louis DuBois, Jr., 
and Solomon DuBois to the tract, on which they resided, as 
far as any possible claims by the proprietors of the Paltz patent 
were concerned, was perfected in 1729, as shown by an ancient 
quit claim in possession of the late Edmund Eltinge in which 
it is stated that for the sum of sixpence the owners of the Paltz 
patent release unto Solomon and Louis DuBois all claims 
upon the tract granted unto Louis DuBois, of Kingston, de- 
ceased, by Thomas Dongan, late Governor, lying on both sides 
of the Paltz river and extending from the lands of said Paltz 
to the lands of James Graham and John Delavoll. (That is 
the Guilford Patent.) This document is signed 

Jacob Has])rouk. Solomon Hasbroucq, 

Daniel Hasbroucq, Isaac lefevre. 

Daniel DuBois, Jan een, 

Samuel Bevier, Abraham Doiau, 

Andre lefevre, Louis bevier, 

jean lefevre, his 

Hugo X fifrear. 
mark 

(These names are interesting as showing the quaint orthog- 
raphy of those days, showing also who were the Dusine in 
1729.) 

Tun: Desckndants of Solomon DuBois 

AT PoUGIlWOUGHTENONK 

Solomon DuBois, as we have stated, left two sons, Cornelius 
and Hendricus. who settled on the ancestral acres. The for- 
mer married Margaret Houghtaling. He inherited 3,000 acres 
from his father's estate which was called Poughwoughtenonk, 



3IO HISTORV OF XEW PALTZ 

and here he resided. He left a faniily of three sons. Wilhel- 
mus. Josiah and Cornelius, and six daug^hters. The last named 
son was the only one who married and outlived his father. 

In Solomon's will, which was made in 1756 and admitted to 
probate in 1759. he pves to his four granddaughters, children 
of his son Isaac, all the land at Perkiomen. Pa., to his son 
Benjamin his land at Catskill, but requiring him to pay iioo 
di^^ded equally between his daughter Helena, wife of Josiah 
Elting. and the children of his daughter Catharine, wife of 
Peter Low. The will gives the son Cornelius the lands occu- 
pied by him on the patent granted to his father and likewise 
a moiety of the Xew Paltz patent, but requires him to pay £100 
to his sisters or their heirs. The will gives to tlie son Hen- 
dricus the lands in his possession within the patent granted to 
the testator's father. Louis DiiBois. the Patentee, also a moiety 
of the Xew Paltz pjatent. but requires him to pay £100 to his 
sisters. Tlie testator provides, moreover, that if any of his 
children or grandchildren shall commence a law suit against 
otlier of his children on account of dissatisfaction with the 
will they shall forfeit their share of the estate. The sons, 
Benjamin and Hendricus, and John Elting of Kingston are 
appointed executors of the will. 

The six daughters married as follows: Janitje married 
Major Jacob Hasbrouck oi Xew Paltz. Catharine married 
Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck of Xewburgh. Rachel married CoL 
Lewis DuBois of Marlborougli. Leah married Cornelius Wjtj- 
koop of Hurley, Sarah married Jacob Hasbrouck of Marble- 
to\\-n and Jacomintje married Andries Bevier of \\"awarsing. 
Cornelius. Jr.. occupied his father's homestead. In the Revo- 
lutionary war he sened as quartermaster in the 4th Regiment 
of Militia, of which his brother-in-law Jonathan Hasbrouck of 
Newburgh. was colonel. He married Gertrude Bru\-n. He 



HISTORY ()/• XEir PALTZ 311 

left one son. Josiali. who niarrieii. and a family of dautjhters, 
who married as follows : Jane married Jacoh Ilardenburgh 
of Xew Paltz. Margaret married Abm. j. Hardenburfj:h of 
Shawangiink. Sarah married John N. LeFevre of Kettleboro, 
Hannah married Andries J. LeFevre of Kettlel>oro. Mary mar- 
ried W'm. McDonald of W'awarsing-. 

Josiah DuBois in his yoimsjer days carried on the mercantile 
business in what is now the Memorial House in this village in 
partnership with Col. Josiah Hasbrouck. whose daughter, Eliza- 
beth, he married as his tirst wife. About 1822 he left New 
Paltz and moved to the ancestral acres where he erected the 
fine brick house, still standing, and here he lived until his 
death in 1868. at the great age of ^'j years. After the death 
of his first wife he married Catharine W'infield. of Peconosink 
in the town of Shawangunk. The children by the first wife 
were Sarah, who married Rev. Mr. Easton, and Pamela, who 
married Abner Hasbrouck. The children by the second wife 
were Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Isaac Reeve; Gilbert, Edward, 
Josiah. Antoinette and Jane, wife of Dr. William Pierson. 

Hendricus DuBois 

Going back now to Plendricus, the other son of Solomon, 
we find that he married Janet je Houghtaling. He lived on 
what is now known as the Capt. Jacob M. DuBois place. 
Hendricus had a family of four sons, Solomon,, Philip. Ma- 
thusalem and Henry (sometimes called Hendricus), and four 
daughters, Catharine, Leah. Rachel and Dina, all of whom 
married as follows : Catharine married Matthew DuBois, Leah 
married Christopher Kiersted, Rachel married John A. Har- 
denburgh and Dinah married Abram Elting. 

In the building of tiie Conferentia church, which was situ- 
ated near the residence of his brother, Conielius, Hendricus 



312 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

DulJois ami Xoah l-^ltin<; were the most liberal contributors 
aiid in the organization of this church Hendricus took a very 
active part, a meeting being held at his house August 29, 1767, 
for the purpose of organizing this church. Both Hendricus 
and Cornelius were men of large means. 

The family of Hendricus DuBois were noted for their great 
size, and the saying is still remembered of an old negro man 
named Frank, who lived to be about 100 years of age, that 
more large people had come out of his house than out of any 
other house in the country. 

Three of Hendricus' sons, Solomon, Mathusalem and Henry, 
served in the Revt)lutionary war. The first named had his knee 
injured in some way in the army and remained lame. His 
knee would click as he walked, for w'hich reason he was some- 
times called "Clinker." Their brother Philip kept a public 
house at Libertyville, and his widow, whose maiden name was 
Anna Hue, continued it after his death in Revolutionary times. 
Methusalem was a captain in the army and was stationed at 
Newburgh. In "New York in the Revolution" his name ap- 
pears as ensign in the 4th Ulster County Militia. He was 
twice married, his first wife being Ciertrude P.ruyn and his 
second Catharine Bevier. W'e have more stories concerning 
Mathusalem than of almost any man of that period, although 
we have no account of the battles in which he was engaged. 
After the war he was usually called "( )1(1 Ca])tain." He lived 
in a house part wimkI and part stone, torn down about 1830, 
on tiie i)lace lately owned by his grandson, Zachariah. The 
sword which he carried in the army came down to his grand- 
son, Peter W., of Libertyville. who allowed it to be taken to 
Indiana by one of the family. In those days there was much 
game in the country, and it is related that Captain Mathusalem 
was coming afoot to church (of course we mean the Confer- 



HISTORY or NR]V PALTZ 313 

cntia cluirch near .Mr. lilake's present residence), when he saw 
a deer lying- asleep by the side of a log, and that he seized the 
deer, and though a little dog that was with him kept snapping 
at his legs, while busy, he took out his pocket knife, with which 
he dispatched him. He did not go to church that day. but car- 
ried the deer home. While Captain DuBois was stationed at 
Newburgh the Indians burned Wawarsing, and it was thought 
that they would cross the mountains. It is related that an old 
colored woman in the place kept a pot of w^ater boiling for tw^o 
or three days, in order to give the redskins a warm reception, 
but they did not come. 

Captain Mathusalem had two sons, Wilhelmus (father of 
Peter W.) and Philip (father of Zach.), by his second wife. 
By his first wife he also had two sons, Abram. who went west, 
and Cornelius, who lived where his grandson, the late Henry 
M., resided. 

A short distance from the residence of the "Old Captain" 
was that of his brother, Henry (or Hendricus). who was an 
adjutant in the patriot army in the regiment commanded by 
Lewis DuBois of ^Marlborough. His wife was Rebecca Van 
Wagenen. Their children were Garret, Mathusalem, Mary, 
Jane and Rebecca. Garret lived where Garret L. DuBois lately 
lived, on the east bank of the Wallkill. Mathusalem lived 
where his father and his grandfather had lived before him and 
his son, Capt. Jacob M., lived after him. Jane married Z. 
Freer, the father of Henry D. B. Rebecca married her cousin, 
Cornelius, father of Mathusalem and grandfather of Henry M., 
who occupied the old homestead, where his father and his 
grandfather lived before him. 



314 HISTORY OF XEll' F.ILTZ 



CHAPTER XXVllI 

The I'AMii.N (>!■ LuLis DuBois, Jr., Son of Lou;s 
THE Patentee 

Louis DiiBois, Jr.. was born in 1677. and in 1701 married 
Rachel Hasbrouck. He settled on a portion of the same tract 
as his brother Solomon, which had been granted by patent to 
their father, the original Louis. Where Louis, Jr.. built his 
house we do not know, but it was somewdiere on the County 
House plain a little south of his brother's. The locality where 
Louis, Jr., located was called until quite recently by the Indian 
name of Nescatack, changed in modern times to Libertyville. 
In an ancient document the name of Louis, Jr.. appears with 
the title of Captain, but we have no information as to any mili- 
tary service performed by him. Louis DuBois, Jr., left three 
sons, Jonathan, Nathaniel and Louis. He also had threee 
daughters, Maria, Mary and Catharine. The first named mar- 
ried Johannes Hardenburgh of Rosendale. 

Solomon and Louis DuBois, Jr., sold to Roelif Eltinge, in 
1726. the land where Edmund Eltinge resided and the 
original deed was still in Air. Eltinge's possession. It read as 
follows : 

To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall 
or may come. Lewis DuBois and Solomon DuBois. both of 
the New Paltz, for divers, good causes and considerations, 
them thereunto moving, have remised, released, and forever 
quit-claimed and by these ])rosonts for themselves and their 
heirs flo fullv. freclv, clearlv. and absolutelv remise, release 



HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 315 

and forever quit-claim untd l\(X'lif Elting, of the same place, 
yeoman, in his full and peaceable possession and to his heirs 
and assigns, forever, all such right, estate, title, interest and 
demand, forever, as they the said Lewis DuBois and Solomon 
DuBois, had or ought to have, of out, or in, to all that certain 
tract or parcel of land which, lying and being at the New Paltz 
aforesaid, on the west side of the Paltz Kil on the grant, piece 
now in possession of the said Roelif Eltinge and likewise all 
the land on the east side of the said Kill, now in possession, of 
the said Roelif Eltinge, together with the house, barn, orchards, 
pastures and all and every thing appurtenances, thereunto be- 
longing or in any wise appertaining to have and to hold the 
above remised and released premises, with all and every the 
appurtenances, thereunto belonging unto the said Roelif El- 
tinge, his heirs and assigns, forever, so that neither, they the 
said Lewis DuBois and Solomon DuBois nor their heirs, nor 
any other person from, by or under them, shall claim, chal- 
lenge or demand any right, title or interest into or to the prem- 
ises or any part thereof. 

Feb. 4, 1726-7. 
Witnesses.: — 

Jregan Tappen, 
Geo. vanWagonen. 

Acknowledgement signed by Abraham Gaasbeck Chambers, 
Judge of the supreme court of common pleas. 

Gil Livingston, Clerk. 
There seems to have been some misunderstandinu as to the 



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exact boundary between the Paltz i)atent and the DuJJois patent 
occupied by Louis and Solomon, and Mr. Samuel B. Stillwell 
had anionic his pajiers. a document in the liand writin*^ of 
the late Josiah DuUois, and copied in 1850 by him from the 
orig;inal, bearinc^ date in 1729 and establishing]^ the line as 
follows : 

Pursuant to his excellencies warrant dated the 13th day of 
November last to me directed, I have by the mutual consent 
and agreement of Solomon DuBois and Lewis DuBois, own- 
ers of a tract of land adjoining to the south bounds of the lands 
of the New Paltz and of Abm. DuBois, Jacob Hasbrouck, 
Daniel Hasbrouck and likewise other proprietors and owners 
of the said New Paltz, surveyed the south bounds of the lands 
of the said New I^altz as follows, viz : Beginning at a certain 
high point in the hills lying on the west side of the New Paltz 
River and from thence runs south thirty-five degrees east to 
a stone set in the ground on the east side of the highway, and 
at the west end of a small gully, which falls in the Paltz River 
and lyes between the fence of the lands of the said New Paltz 
and the lands of the said Solomon DuBois and Lewis DuBois 
which stone was allowed by both parties to have been placed 
there as a mark of the boundaries between the land of the said 
Solomon and Lewis Dul>ois and the lands of New Paltz and 
from the said stone down the said gully two chains and 46 
links to the Paltz river, then crossing the said river runs from 
the opposite side thereof south 56 degrees and 40 minutes east 
to the south side of GefTrow's hook and the north east cornei 
of John Barbour's land on Hudson River. Given under my 
hand, this 7th day of April in the second year of his majesty's 
reign, Anno Dom. 1729. 

Copy Caldwallader Golden. Jr. 



HISTORY Of XEir i'ALTZ 317 

P. S. The stone referred to is marked on the north side 
P. L. (meaning I think Pahz Uniits) on the south side D. D. B. 
There are more such stones on the same Une, on the east side 

of the Wallkill, if not kjst. 

Louis, Son of Louis, Jr. 

The pamphlet pubHshcd in i860 by Robert Patterson DuBois, 
of New Loiukni, renn.. and W'm. E. DuBois, of Philadelphia, 
containing the histor) of a number of the descendants of Louis 
DuBois, the Patentee, has only this to say about Louis, Jr., 
and his descendants : 

"Louis, who was born about 1677. Having received infor- 
mation from some of his descendants, we can speak more fully 
in regard to this line. It appears that Louis was married to 
Rachel Hasbrouck in 1701. How many children they had is 
not known, only that there was one son named Louis, who was 
born about 1717. married Charity Andrevelt and settled in 
Staten Island. This last Louis had six children, viz., Louis, 
Matthias, Augustus, John, Charles and Elizabeth. Matthias, 
the second of these, who was born in 1747 and died in 1820, 
had by his first wife, Catharine Carshun, Mary, Louis, Daniel, 
Matthias and John; and by his second wife three daughters, 
Ann, Lockley and Susan. He removed with all his family, 
about the year 1792, from Staten Island to Nanticoke, Broome 
county. N. Y., where several branches of his family now reside. 
In 1847 Jo'i'i. the onl\- surviving child of Matthias' first wife, 
was living in Tioga, N. V., and about 70 years of age. He was 
the father of twelve children, most of whom lived in Tioga 
county, X. Y., and two, viz., John and Matthias, were living 
in Williamsport, Pa. It was through this last named and his 
father that these facts were procured." 



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Jonathan, Sdn of Luris, Jr. 

Jonathan, son of Louis, Jr.. married Elizabeth LeFevre, 
daughter of Andries LeFevre. They ]irobahly occupied the 
house of his father, but we liave no testimony on that score 
except that they Uved in that same neifjhborhood. They had 
a family of three sons, Louis J., Andries and Nathaniel, and 
three daug^hters. Rachel. Cornelia and Maria. Cornelia mar- 
ried Cornelius \'ernooy and Maria married Al)m. P.ovier and 
both settled in the Xew Hurley neighborhooil. 

The will of Jonathan, which was made in 1746 and admitted 
to probate in 1749. g^ives to his eldest son. Louis J., his large 
Dutch Bible as a birthright ; it gives to his wife Elizabeth all 
his estate during her widowhood, but in case she should marrv' 
again she is required to give to the children all the estate except 
one negro girl and such cows and household goods as she had 
when she married; after his wife's marriage or death he gives 
to his eldest son. Louis J., all his land on the south east side 
of the Paltz river, but he is required to pay to his brothers, 
Andries and Nathaniel, and to his sisters, Rachel. Cornelia and 
Maria. £250 current money of New York, to be equally divided 
between them ; to the youngest son. Jonas, the will gives all 
the land on the north west side of the Paltz river, but he is 
required to pay to his brothers, .\ndries and Nathaniel, and his 
sisters. Rachel. Cornelia and Maria, the sum of £450. In case 
the wife shall die or marry before the sons. Louis and Jonas, 
come of age the farms shall be renteil by the executors and the 
proceeds applied to the bringing up and educating the children ; 
to the four sons are bequeathed all horses, wagons and farming 
utensils, and to the three daughters all household goods and 
furniture. All the residue of his estate is divided equally be- 
tween the sons and daughters. The testator's brother, Na- 
thaniel DuTV>is. and his brother-in-law. Johannes Hanionburgh, 



HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 319 

and W'essel Brodhcad are appointed executors. The will is 
witnessed by Cornelius DuRois. Kvert Terwillii^^er, Jr., and 
J. Bruyn. 

Wo have no farther account of Jonathans son Jonas. He 
probably died youn^-. 

Jonathan's son Andries married Sarah LeFevre, of New 
Paltz village, and settled at Wallkill. in those days sometimes 
called New Hurley, where his brick house is still stand- 
ins: and was the first house of brick in this part of the 
country. 

Andries' sons were Simon L., Sen., Jonathan and Andries. 
He had one daughter. Elizabeth, who married Johannes Le- 
Fevre, of Kettleborough, and another daughter, Elsie, who 
married Philip LeFevre. of Kettleborough. Andries. son of 
the Andries who built the brick house, moved to New Paltz 
village and occupied the old LeFevre homestead here, which 
stood in the north part of the present church yard. This 
property came to him from his uncle. Andries LeFevre, who 
left no children. When the present brick church was erected, 
in 1839, this LeFevre house was torn down. Andries moved 
to Put Corners into the stone house now owned by Mr. Jacob 
Champlin. His sons were Louis, who occupied his father's 
residence; Nathaniel, who located at Shivertown, and Jonathan, 
who lived just north of this village. The descendants of 
Simon L.. Sen., still reside at Wallkill. He had but one son, 
Simon L., Jr. 

Nathaniel DuBois, son of Jonathan and grandson of Louis, 
Jr., did not marry. He built the first mill at Libertyville. 
Jonathan's son. Louis J., lived in Revolutionary times where 
Henry L. DuBois lately resided. His wife was Catharine 
Brodhead. The house in which they lived is still standing and 
is probably the oldest frame house in this part of the couiUrv. 



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mSTORV OF NHir PALTZ 




HOUSE CK CAPT. LOLIS J. DUBOI^ 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 321 

It has been re-sided, but the |:;^rcat beams arc as of old. It has 
always been in the possession of the DuBois family. Louis J. 
was commissioned as captain of the ist New Paltz company 
of the 3rd Ulster County Regiment, October 25, 1775. We 
have no account of the service that he rendered in this capacity 
to the patriotic cause during the Revolutionary war. He has 
a great number of descendants in this vicinity. Louis J.'s 
children were as follows : Wessel, Jonas, Charles, Louis, 
Jonathan, Elizabeth and Anna. 

Wessel, the eldest son, has no descendants here. He lived 
in a house, torn down long ago, on the present C. L. Van Orderi 
place. His son Jonathan lived on the other side of the moun- 
tain. Eli DuBois, of Ellenville, and ex-supervisor Louis, of 
Denning, were grandsons of Wessel. 

Jonas lived where Louis L. DuBois now resides. He had 
ten children, of whom ex-supervisor George, of this town, was 
the last survivor. The other children were L. Nathaniel of 
Walden, Louis I., LeFevre, James, Wessel, Deyo, David 
Eliza, wife of Anthony Crispell, and Maria, wife of Jacob 
Ostrander. 

Charles carried on the milling business at Libertyville and 
was a prominent and highly respected man. His children were 
Stephen G., Catharine, wife of Abiel Hand, Rebecca, Henry, 
Louis, Derick W., Jacob and Zacharias. The two last named 
settled in Michigan. 

Jonathan lived in Springtown. He was elected county judge 
in 1 82 1. Jonathan's children scattered. Two sons, John and 
Brodhead, settled in Michigan. Another son, George, became 
a minister and was located at Tarrytown. Three daughters 
became the wives of Benjamin \'an Wagenen, Derick W. El- 
ting and Alexander Hasbrouck. 



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Louis located in the mountains. His children were Coe. 
Katy Ann and Rachel. 

Elizabeth married Rev. Stephen Goetchius. who was pastor 
of the church at New Paltz from 1775 to 1796. They left a 
family of children. 

Anna became the second wife of Jacob J. Hasbrouck. They 
left a large family of children. 

Altogether the grandchildren of Louis, who grew up, num- 
bered about fifty. 

About 1870 the descendants of Louis DuDois held a picnic 
in the grove on the bank of the W'allkill, on the farm 
now owned by Louis L. Dui^ois, and the attenilance was very 
large. 



NATH.^^^IEL. Sox of Louis, Jr. 

Nathaniel DuBois, son of Louis. Jr.. located at Blooming 
Grove, now Salisbury Mills, in Orange county. Nathaniel's 
wife was Gertrude Bruyn. whom he married in 1726. He left 
three sons. Lewis, Zachariah and Jonas, and three daughters, 
one of whom. Rachel, became the wife of Andries LeFevre, 
one of the two brothers who were the first settlers at Kettle- 
borough. Another daughter, Hester, became the wife of Col. 
Jesse Woodhull. 

Nathaniel's son Lewis settled in Marlborough and his house, 
which is still standing, was the first house on the river front. 
He served in the army during a great portion of the Revolu- 
tionar)- war, including the invasion of Canada, where he was 
promoted from captain to major and he afterwards became 
colonel of the 5th Continental Regiment, receiving his com- 
mission November 17, 1776. His tombstone is still pointed 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 323 

out in the graveyanl of the old Presbyterian church at Marble- 
boroui^h. He died in 1812. 

Natlianiel's son Zachariah also rendered service in the Revo- 
lutionary war as a major and was taken prisoner when the 
British captured Fort Montgomery. 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 




HOUbt. Ol- CUL. LEWIS DU BOIS AT MARUJUKOUGH 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 325 



CHAPTER XXIX 

Military Service of Col. Lewis DuBois 

The following account of the service and military career of 
Col. Lewis DuBois during the Revolutionary war was written 
by Mr. Robert E. Deyo, of New York : 

During the summer of 1775 there was great excitement in 
the Province of New York over the proposed expedition for 
conquering Canada. The troops from New York were com- 
manded by General Montgomery. One of the regiments was 
the Third of the New York line, whose colonel was James 
Clinton, a brother of Gov. George Clinton. Of one of the 
companies of this regiment Lewis DuBois was captain. His 
commission was issued June 28, 1775. On August 21 the 
muster roll of his company was returned and filed. The term 
of enlistment was for six months. This company was known 
as the Dutchess Company, and its officers were : Captain, Lewis 
Dubos ; first lieut., Elias Van Benschoten ; second lieut., An- 
drew T. Lawrence ; vice, Cornelius Adriance, resigned. 

Mr. Ruttenber says : "These regiments were more especially 
recruited for the invasion of Canada, a popular craze at that 
time which did much to fritter away the resources of the colo- 
nists and yielded no other return than the development of 
capacities for leadership and experience in the service. It was 
a severe school, but men marched to it with a shout. They were 
well armed and uniformed. * * * The Third or Ulster 
Regiment had gray coats with green cuffs and facings. Their 
breeches and waistcoats were of Russia drilling, the former 
were short (to the knee) and the latter long (to the lups). 



326 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

Their stockinjjs were loiijj^ (to the knee) of coarse woolen 
homespun, low shoes, linen cravats and low-crowned, hroad- 
briinined felt hats. 

"The New York regiments were brii^jaded under General 
Montgomery and were with him in all his movements. At 
Point aux Trembles, on the ist of December, the entire force 
under his command had dwindled down to about 900 effective 
men. In fruitless attempts to force an entrance into Quebec, 
three weeks were wasted and then an assault made. Mont- 
gomery, at the head of his Xew York men. descended from the 
Plains of Abraham in the neighborhood of St. John's and St. 
Louis gates and Cape Diamond bastion. At the narrowest point 
under Cape Diamond the British had planted a three-gun bat- 
tery. On the river side was a precipice, and on the left rough 
crags of dark slate towered above them. The guard at the 
battery in front stood ready with lighted matches. Mont- 
gomery halted a moment to reconnoitre and then into the jaws 
of death charged the 900 over heaps of ice and snow. When 
within forty paces of the battery, its fire was opened on the 
advancing cohunn and a storm of grape shot swept the narrow 
pass and continued for ten minutes. Montgomery and lx)th 
his aids and several jirivates were killed — the unwounded living 
fell back." 

.After this repulse our little army lay before Quebec all of 
the winter of 1775-6. Of what occurred we know but little. 
While in the fiekl Lewis DuBois was raised from captain to 
majr)r. (ieneral Benedict Arnold wrote to the President of 
Congress a long letter dated from "Camp before Quebec, i 
February, 1776." In this amruig other things he states the 
reason why a certain Major I5rown should not be promoted 
and ends up by saying : "This transaction, Colonel Campbell. 
Major Dubois and several gentlemen were knowing to." 



HISTORY Ol' Mill' PALTZ 327 

This extract is only important as showing that on February 
1, 1776, he was already a major. On March 8, 1776. he was 
made a major in Col. John Nicholson's regiment raised in 
Canada out of the four Xew ^'ork regiments which originally 
went there, the term of their enlistment, being for only six 
months, having expired. 

General George Clinton writes in 1776: 

"Major Dubois is highly recommended to Congress as well 
bv the general officers, as the Committee who lately returned 
from Canada. I wish and believe young Richard Piatt may 
be properly provided for in the (new) regiment. He was with 
Major Dubois and Capt. r.ruyn at Point Lacoy at the engage- 
ment between our people and a number of Canadians in which 
the latter was defeated, and behaved well as Major l^ubois can 
testify." ' 

At the same time that Lewis Dubois was in Canada with 
Montgomery, he was second major in Col. Jonathan Has- 
brouck's militia regiment. The other officers were : Lieutenant- 
colonel. Johannis Hardenbergh, Jr. ; first major. Johannes Jan- 
sen. Jr.; second major, Lewis DuBois; adjutant. .Abraham 
Schoonmaker ; quartermaster. Isaac Belknap. This regiment 
was organized Sei:)tember 2, 1775. The commissions of the 
officers were dated 25th of October, 1775. 

At the time of the return of the expedition which went to 
Canada, there were four regiments of the line enlisted for three 
years or during the war, existing in the State of New \'ork. 
It was determined to raise a fifth. The preliminary step 
seems to have led to a clash of authority between the Conti- 
nental Congress and the Provincial Congress. On the 26th of 
June. 1776. John Hancock. ])resident of the Continental Con* 
gress, wrote a letter to tlie Provincial CV)nventif)n in which was 



328 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

enclosed a notice that Lewis Duliois. major in the Canada ser- 
vice, was commissioned Jnne 25, 1776, by the Continental 
Cong^ress, with instruction to raise a regiment for three years 
or during the war, to be the Fifth Regiment of the New York 
line, and that the Continental Congress had, on June 26th, 
appointed the other officers for the regiment as follows : 

Lieutenant-colonel, Jacobus S. Bruyn ; major, William Go- 
forth ; captains, David DuBois, Elias \'an Benschoten, Thomas 
DeWitt, Isaac Wool, Philip D. B. Bevier, Richard Piatt, Albert 
Pawling, Cornelius T. Jansen. 

First lieutenants, James Gregg, Aaron Austin, Jonathan 
Piercy, Evans Wherry. Garret Van Wagenen. Henry \"anden- 
burg, Nathaniel Conklin, Henry Dodge. 

Second lieutenant, ist Company, Dan. Gano; surgeon, John 
Coates, and adjutant, Henry DuBois. 

Commissions were to be given as soon as the full comple- 
ment of men had been raised. 

In the letter which enclosed this list. President Hancock says : 

"You will perceive by the enclosed resolves which I do myself 
the honor of transmitting in obedience to the commands of 
Congress, they have appointed not only the field officers in the 
regiment to be raised in your colony, but likewise a number of 
subalterns. The reason that induced Congress to take that 
step, as it is a deviation from rule, should be j)articulnrly men- 
tioned. I am therefore directed to infomi you, that in conse- 
quence of their being furnished with a list of officers who had 
served in Canada, they had been enabled to appoint, and in fact 
have only appointed, such as were recommended and appointed 
by the Pro\inoial Congress of your Colony, and have served 
faithfully in the last summer campaign and through the winter. 
It is apprehended therefore that the Congress have only ])re- 



HISTORY or Xliir PALTZ 329 

vented (forestalled) you in their appointments and that the 
same gentlemen would have met with your approbation for 
their services to their country ; added to this the last intelli- 
gence from Canada showing our affairs to he in the most 
imminent danger rendered the utmost dispatch necessary, that 
not a moment's time might be lost. 

"The other officers of the battalion I am to request you will 
be pleased to appoint and exert every nerve to equip the bat- 
talion as soon as possible. As an additional encouragement 
the Congress have resolved that a bounty of ten dollars be given 
every soldier who shall enlist for three years." 

Of the officers named, Richard Piatt, Aaron Austin, Jonathan 
Piercy. Garret \'an Wagenen and Dan Gano, resigned because 
they considered themselves slighted by the positions assigned 
them. In addition, the Provincial Convention considered that 
the Continental Congress was unwarrantably interfering. 

In the proceedings of the Provincial Convention, November 
21, 1776, the committee appointed to carry into execution the 
resolves of Congress relative to the new arrangement of officers, 
reported through Robert Yates, chairman, that they had com- 
pleted an arrangement of officers for the four battalions or- 
dered to be raised in this State, and further that in forming their 
report so far as the officers of Col. DuBois' regiment are con- 
cerned in it. your committee considered that they were entitled 
to no other rank than what they held prior to their appointment 
in that regiment, which was done without the recommendation 
or intervention of the Convention of this State, contrary to the 
uniform practice in all similar cases and in prejudice of other 
officers of higher rank and equal merit. That your committee 
were constrained by those ]>rinci]Dles to omit Col. DuBois' name 
in the present arrangement. That Col. DuBois has been well 
recommended to this committee as an exceeding good officer 



330 HISTORY or XHir IWLTZ 

capable of coniniandinj^ a regiment witli credit to himself and 
advantag^eoiis to his country. 

That from the quota of this State beings assessed as low as 
four battalions, many good officers will be unprovided for. 
That sundry applications have been made to your committee 
for commissions by young gentlemen of fortune ami family, 
whose services your committee are under the disagreeable 
necessity of declining to accept. 

That your committee are clearly of opinion that another bat- 
talion might be raised in this State, and they therefore earnestly 
recommend it to the convention to use their influence with the 
General Congress to obtain their permission and order for that 
purpose, and that Col. Dubois command the said battalion so 
to be raised and to have the rank of fourth colonel of Xew 
York forces. 

Thereupon it was. among other things. 

'■( )rdered. that a letter l)e written to the Hon. the Continental 
Congress requesting their api)robation of the resolutions for 
raising a fifth battalion in this state to be commanded by Col. 
Louis Dubois, and another letter to General Washington re- 
questing his countenance to that measure." 

These efforts were successful. 

The Fifth Regiment was finally organized with the following 
officers : 

I»uis Dubois, colonel; jacobus Rruyn. lieutenant-colonel; 
Samuel Logan, major; Henry Dubois, adjutant: Xehimiah 
Carpenter, quartermaster; Samuel Townsend, paymaster; John 
Ciano. chaplain; .^amuel Cook, surgeon; Ebenezer Hutchinson. 
surgeon's mate. 

Captains. Jacobus Rosecrans. Jas. ."^tewart. .\mos Hutchins. 



HISTORY or Mill' I'ALTZ 331 

Philip I). IJevier. Thomas Lcc, I Icnry (ioodwin, Jolin I-'. I lam- 
track, John Johnston. 

First Heutenants, Henry Uod^e. John lUirnett, I'attcn Jack- 
son, Thos. Brinkley, Henry PavvUng, Sanuicl IVndleton, 
Francis Hanmer, Henry Vandenburgh. 

Second heutenants, Samuel Dodge, Alex. McArthur, John 
Furnian, Samuel English, Daniel Birdsall, Ebenezer Mott, 
James Betts. 

Ensigns. Henry Swartout, John McClaughry. Edward 
Weaver, Jacobus Sleight. Thomas Beynx. Abraham Lent, 
Henry J. \'andenburgh. 

The commission of Col. Dubois was dated November 17, 
1776. While the h'ifth Regiment was forming he was too 
zealous to remain inactive. The Ikitish were then in posses- 
sion of New York. The Patriot army was in the vicinity ot 
White Plains. On the 28th of January. 1777, William Duer, 
in a letter to General \^'ashington. dated from camp in West- 
chester county, says : 

" * * Col. Dubois who has come down with the York 
militia as a volunteer and who has repeatedly offered his ser- 
vice to destroy King's bridge, will. I fear, return to-morrow. 
despairing to see anything effectual done. " 

Early in 1777 the Mfth Regiment was ordered to garrison 
duty at Fort Montgomery. ( )n .\])ril 30th of that year a 
court martial, of which Col. Lewis Dulxiis was president, was 
there convened by order of Brig.-Cen. ( ieo. Clinton, for the 
trial of all such per.sons as should come before them charged 
with levying war against the State of New N'ork within the 
same, adhering to the King of (ireat liritain and owing alle- 
giance or deriving protection from the laws of the said State 
of Xew ^'ork. This c<>url recommended that eleven men who 



332 in STORY OF XEJl' PALTZ 

were tried before them sIkhiUI be hanged. (Others were ac- 
quitted or designated for milder lumishment. 

We shall not recapitulate the incidents which led up to the 
assault on Fort Montgomery by the British, nor to the details 
of that fight. These are accessible in any good histor\ . With 
regard to Col Lewis Dubois' share in this fight, Mr. Rutten- 
bcr says : 

"His services in the army were held in high esteem by his 
contemporaries; Col. Dubois' (Fifth) regiment was especially 
the regiment of this (Newburgh) district both in its member- 
ship and in its services. It was stationed in the Highlands in 
the spring of 1777 and was there when Forts Clinton and Mont- 
gomery were taken by the English forces in October of that 
year. Through a mistaken conclusion arising from the fact 
that they were clothed in hunting shirts such as farmers' ser- 
vants in England wear, its dead in that action were ranked as 
militia by the I'.ritish. The facts are that the l)runt of the 
desperate and heroic resistance which was made fell on Col. 
Lewis Dubois' regiment, shared by Lamb's artillery. The re- 
turns of Col. Dubois' Fifth as they stand on its roll book, are : 
taken prisoners. Lieut. Col. Jacobus l>ruyn. Major Samuel 
Logan, Quartermaster Nehemiah Carpenter, Captain Henry 
Goodwin. Lieutenants Alex. McArthur. Patten Jackson. Henry 
Pawling. Solomon Pendleton. Second Lieuts. Samuel Dodge, 
John I'urman, Ebenczer Mott. Ensigns Henry Swartout. John 
McClaughry. .Abm. Lcggett. Sergeant Henry Schoonmaker. 
"Missing in action" is written against the name of ninety-six 
of the privates or not less than one-third of the whole strength 
of the regiment at that time. These men did not run — they 
were overwhcimcfl. While all of them were not killed, many 
were, and their bodies pierced by the bayonet for no gun was 
fired bv the assaulting column — found resting place in the 



HISTORY 01' NEW PALTZ 333 

waters of "bloody pond," where in the succeeding spring, with 
an ann, a leg or a part of the body above the surface 
they presented the scene which Dwight describes as 'mon- 
strous.' " 

In this engagement Col. Dubois received a bayonet wound in 
the neck, as appears by a letter from Gen. Putnam to Gen. 
Gates, hereafter quoted from. This shows the desperate char- 
acter of the fighting. 

The course of those who escaped appears quite clearly from 
an account of it by Rev. John Gano, chaplain of the regiment, 
who wrote : 

"The dusk of the evening, together with the smoke and 
rushing in of the enemy, made it impossible for us to dis- 
tinguish friend or foe. This confusion gave us an opportunity 
of escaping through the enemy over the breastwork. Many 
escaped tq the water and got on board a scow and pushed off. 
Before she had got twice her length we grappled one of our 
row-galleys into which we all got and crossed the river. We 
arrived safe at New Windsor, where, in a few days after we 
were joined by some more of our army who had escaped from 
the forts." 

Gen. Clinton, writing to Gen. Washington, says : 

"Many officers and men and myself having the advantage 
of the enemy by being well acquainted with the ground, were 
so fortunate as to effect our escape under cover of the night 
after the enemy were possessed of all the works." 

It is not true, as often asserted, that Col. Lewis Dubois 
was taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery. ]Maj. Zachary Du- 
bois, of Col. Jesse Woodhull's regiment of Orange county 
militia, a brother of Col. Lewis Dubois, was taken a prisoner 



334 til ST DRY or SEW PALTZ 

ami removed to Xew York. Some glimpse of what hai)i)ened 
to the Major after his capture is had from the following docu- 
ments. 

Mkmokandlm of Zachakiaii DlBois of Cai'tukf and 
Imprisonment 

Monday the 6th ()ct. 1777. tlien I was taken prisoner at 
Fort Montgomery and kept there till the eighth day. then I 
was taken aboard the Archer ship, a transport, there kept till 
the tenth, then taken to the old City Hall, there kept till the 
twelfth, then taken to the Provost, there kept till the ist day 
of Xovember. then got on parole on Long Island. I'.edford, till 

the . then moved to Xew L'tritch, and there staid till 

the twenty-eighth, then they sent us on board the transi)ort 
ship Judith, and there kept till the loth day of December, 
then to our old quarters at New Utritch, etc. 

parole 

I, Zachariah Dubois, of Goshen, in the Province of Xew 
^'()rk. having leave from General Sir Henry Clinton, to go out 
of this city in order to effect the exchange of myself for Maj. 
Thomas Moncrief. do hereby jiledge my faith and word of 
honor, that I will not do or say anything contrary to the in- 
terest t)f his Majesty or his Government, and that if the ex- 
change of the above person for myself canned be effected within 
tweniy da\s. I will return back to my captivity in this city. 

(iiven under my liand in Xew ^'ork. this fourth da\' of 
August, 1776. 

Witness : Thos. Clark. 

Zachariah Dubois. 

A true copy, John W'inslow, 

D. Com. Prs. 



HISTORY OP NEW FALTZ 335 

DISCIIARGIi: AND I'AKOLE 

This is to certify that Zachariah Dubois, Major in Colonel 
W'oodhuH's rei^inient of militia in the state of New York, and 
made prisoner by the enemy at the reduction of Fort Mont- 
gomery, was thi^ day regularly discharged for Maj. Moncrief, 
in the service of the King of Great Britain. 

Elizabethtown. Aug. 6, 1778. 

Jno. Beatty, 

Com. Gen. Pris'rs. 

After the first shock of defeat the disaster was found not to 
be serious as at first supposed. General Putnam, writing to 
General Washington under datcof lMshkill,8( )ctol)er, 1777. says : 

"I have the pleasure to inform you that many more of our 
troops made their escape than what I was at first informed of. 
Colonel Dubois who is one of the number, this day collected 
near 200 of his regiment that got ofif after the enemy were in 
the Fort." 

General Putnam, writing to General Gates from Fishkill, 
eleven o'clock a. m., 9 October, 1777. says: 

"Colonel Dubois, who had a wound with a ba\'onct in his 
neck, has luustercd near 200 of his men, who were with him 
in the action, many of whom have slight wounds with ba\-onets 
and swords but are in high spirits." 

From General Putnam, Governor Clinton obtainetl Col. 
Webb's brigade and with them crossed the river to New 
Windsor, Orange county, on October 8th, the second day after 
the battle. On the same day Governor Clinton wrote to the 
Legislature from his headquarters at the house of Mrs. Falls, 
which still stands in Little Britain Square, that "not more than 



Z2>(^ HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

eleven officers of Col. Dubois' regiment arc missing. 200 of 
his men including non-commissioned officers, have already 
joined me at this place; many more of them may be hourly 
expected as we have heard of their escape." 

By alarms and signal guns the militia that had not been in 
the action were brought together and by the time the British 
had destroyed the obstructions to the navigation of the river 
a respectable force was again under the Clintons' command 
on the west shore. On the eastern side Putnam was pro- 
tecting the army stores at Fishkill and at points above. 

While the British were removing the obstructions to navi- 
gation and awaiting the return of a reconnoitering party which 
started up the river on the nth, General Clinton was collect- 
ing his little force at New Windsor. 

On the loth, one Daniel Taylor was arrested near the camp. 
He was a bearer of a message from the British General Sir 
Henry Clinton, to Burgoyne, then sorely pressed by General 
Gates at Saratoga, although Sir Henry was not aware of Bur- 
goyne's sorry plight. 

"The letter from Clinton to Burgoyne,'' writes General 
George Clinton, "was enclosed in a small silver ball of an oval 
form about the size of a fusee bullet, and shut with a screw 
in the middle. When he was taken and brought before me he 
swallowed it. I mistrusted this to be the case from informa- 
tion I received and administered to him a very strong emetic 
calculated to act cither way. This had the desired effect ; it 
brought it fnmi him ; but though closely watched he had the 
art to conceal it a second time. 

"I made him believe I had taken one from Capt. Campbell, 
another messenger who was on the same business ; that I 
learned from him all T wanted to know, and demanded the 



HISTORY OF N ElV PALTZ 337 

ball on pain of being' hung up instantly and cut open to search 
for it. This brought it forth." 

The contents of this letter are as follows : 

"Fort Montgomery, Oct. 8, 1777. 

"Nous y void (here we are) and nothing now between us 
but Gates. I sincerely hope this little success of ours may 
facilitate your operations. In answer to your letter of the 
28th Sept. by C. C. I can only say I cannot presume to order, 
or even advise for reasons obvious. I heartily wish you 
success. Faithfully yours, 

"Gen. Burgoyne. H. Clinton." 

Dr. Moses Higby, residing at New Windsor, administered 
the emetic which afforded such convincing proof of Taylor'3 
employment. Many interesting facts concerning the curious 
personality of the doctor will be found in Eager's History of 
Orange County. 

On October 14th, a general court martial met for the trial 
of Taylor by order of General Clinton. The following docu- 
ment from the "Clinton papers" gives the names of those con- 
stituting the court and is an official record of the proceedings : 

"At a general court martial held at the Heights of New 
Windsor the 14th of October, 1777, by order of Brigadier 
General George Clinton, whereof Colonel Lewis Dubois was 
President : 

]\Iajor Bradford, Capt. Galespie, 

Maj. Huntingdon, " Conklin, 

Capt. Savage, " Wood. 

" Watson " Hamtramk, 

" Wyllis, " Lee, 

" Ellis. " Huested. 



33^ HISTORY Of XEll' PALTZ 

(In Eager's Orange County, it is stated that John Wood- 
worth was Judge Advocate.) 

"Daniel Taylor, charged with lurking about the camp as a 
spy from the enemy, confined by order of General Clinton, was 
brought before said court, and to the above crime the prisoner 
plead not guilty, but confessed his being an express from Gen. 
Clinton to Gen. Burgoyne, when taken. And that he had been 
employed as an express also, from Gen. Burgoyne to Gen. 
Qinton, and was taken in the Camp of the Army of the United 
States, near New Windsor, by Lieut. Howe. Taylor likewise 
confessed his being a first Lieutenant in Capt. Stewart's Com- 
pany in the 9th regiment of the British Troops, and but one 
man in company when taken. The prisoner plead that he was 
not employed as a spy, but on the contrary was charged both 
by Gen. Clinton and Gen. Burgoyne not to come near our 
camp; but meeting accidentally with some of our troops in 
British uniform, he was thereby deceived and discovered him- 
self to them. 

"The court after considering the case, were of the opinion 
that the prisoner is guilty of the charge brought against him 
and adjudged him to suffer death, to be hanged at such time 
and place as the General shall direct. 

A true copy of the proceedings : 

Test. Lewis Dubois, Col. 

President." 

When the little amiy of Governor Clinton mmed down the 
Wallkill on the 15th. to save Kingston, Taylor was taken along, 
his name appearing every day in the guard reports. A general 
order issued on the morning of the destruction of Kingston, 
determined his fate. 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 339 

It was not, however, carried into effect on the 17th, as 
directed ; no doubt the attention of the troops was taken up 
with matters at Kingston. He was still under guard on the 
morning of the i8th, after which his name ceases to trouble 
the officer in charge. 

In a MS. journal kept by a person in Clinton's force, prob- 
ably a chaplain, is this entry : 

"October 18th, Saturday, Mr. Taylor, a spy taken in Little 
Britain, was hung here. Mr. Romain and myself attended him 
yesterday, and I have spent the morning in discoursing to him, 
and attended him at the gallows. He did not appear to be 
either a political or gospel penitent." 

Tradition has it that Taylor was hanged on an apple tree 
near the village of Hurley. 

Having anticipated somewhat, in order to keep the story of 
the capture, trial and execution of Taylor together, we must 
now go back. The British reconnoitering party, which started 
on the nth of October, ascended the river to within three 
miles of Poughkcepsie and returned in safety, having burned 
several buildings and old vessels along the shore. The report 
favored an advance of the whole force which accordingly 
started from Peekskill October 14th. 

On October 15th, at nine o'clock a. m., General George 
Clinton wTote to Kingston from Headquarters near New Wind- 
sor that twenty sail of the enemy's shipping had been dis- 
covered in the river below Butter Hill (Storm King). After 
speaking of matters which need not here be recapitulated, the 
letter proceeds as follows : 

"Since writing the above the enemy's fleet consisting of 
thirty sail have passed Newburgh and with crowded sail and 
and fair wind arc moving quick uj) the river : the front of them 



340 111 STORY OF XEIV PALTZ 

arc already at the Danskamincr. There are eight large square- 
rigged vessels among them and all appear to have troops on 
board. My troops are parading to march to Kingston. Our 
route will be through Shawangunk to prevent delay in crossing 
the Paltz (Wallkill) river. I leave Col. WoodhuU's, iMc- 
Claughry's and part of Hasbrouck's regiment as a guard along 
the river. * * * j y;\\\ be with you if nothing extra hap- 
pens before day ; though my troop cannot." 

What a thrilling sight it must have been to see thirty vessels, 
eight of them square-rigged, crowded with troops whose gay 
uniforms vied with the gaudy splendors of an American autumn 
sailing in a compact mass with colors flying, sails distended, 
waves dancing and sparkling as the great flotilla moves 
through Newburgh Bay and Danskammer Point. This is a 
picture over which the imagination lingers, especially with 
those whose good fortune it has been to have seen at the cor- 
responding season, the georgeous ampitheatre within which this 
scene was set. 

The force which moved with Geo. Clinton in his effort to 
prevent the burning of Kingston was about i,ooo men, com- 
posed of the skeleton regiments of Cols. Lewis Dubois, Webb, 
Sutherland and Ellison, with a part of Hasbrouck's, and what 
remained of Lamb's artillery. Only a portion of the advance 
guard got near enough to Kingston to behold the village in 
flames and the enemy retiring to his shipping. 

The British reached the landing place for Kingston on the 
evening of the 15th. the town being burned on the i6th. On 
the way up they fired their cannon at the houses of known 
rebels on either shore. Attention was paid to the house of Col. 
Dubois, which, althougli not in sight of the river, was within 
easy cannon shot of it, the firing point being selected from the 
mouth of a brook emptying into the river, which was within 



HISTORY Of \'EJr PALTZ 341 

close range oi the house. This cannonade was harmless, but 
that the intention of the firing party was serious is evidenced 
by the cannon balls which have from time to time been dug 
out of a bank of earth a short distance west of the house. 
One of these, \teighing 24^ pounds aiid the heaviest among a 
large collection, is now deposited at Washington's Headquarters 
in Newburgh. 

General Clinton's little army w'as still at Hurley on October 
20th, as appears by the report of the Officer of the Day. 

Rullcnber says : 

"During the winter of 1777-8, Dubois' regiment was in bar- 
racks at Fishkill. Its condition there was deplorable. In Jan- 
uary, 1778, General Putnam writes, 'Dubois' regiment is unfit 
to be ordered on duty, there being not one blanket in the regi- 
ment. \^ery few have either a shoe or a shirt and most of 
them have neither stockings, breeches or overalls. Chastellux 
writes that many were absolutely naked, being only covered 
by straw suspended from the waist. The losses in stores at 
Fort Montgomery brought on this destitution very largely. 
It did not continue long after Putnam called Gov. Clinton's 
attention to it.' ' 

"In Jul), 1778, the five New York regiments were brigaded 
under Cien. James Clinton.'' 

This brigade took a very active part in the expedition against 
the Indians in the western part of this State in 1779. General 
Sullivan with the main body of the army, which did not in- 
clude Clinton's brigade, started from the vicinity of Easton, 
Pennsylvania, and penetrated the wilderness to the vicinity of 
Elniira. Gen. Clinton's force included, besides his own bri- 
gade, some regiments from other states, the wlmlo C(~»mmand 
amounting to about 1.600 men. 



34-' HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

The roster of the Fifth New York regiment on this expe- 
dition was as follows : 

Lewis Dubois, Col. 

Henry Dubois, Adjt. and Col. 

Henry Dodge, Adjt. and Lieut. 

Michael Connolly, Paymaster and 2nd Lieut. 

James Johnston, Q. ]\L and Ensign. 

Samuel Cooke, Surgeon. 

Ebenezer Hutchinson, Surgeon's Mate. 

James Rosekrans, Capt. 

John F. Hamtranck, Capt. 

John Johnson, Capt. 

Philip DuBois Bevier, Capt. 

James Stewart, Capt. 

Henry W. Vanderburgh, Lieut. 

Daniel Birdsall, 2nd Lieut. 

James Betts, 2nd Lieut. 

Barthal Vanderburgh, Ensign. 

Francis Hanmer, Ensign. 

Henry Vanderburgh, Ensign. 

About the middle of June, 1779, Clinton, in order to join 
Sullivan, began transporting his force from the Mohawk river 
by the way of Canajoharie and Springfield to Lake Otsego, 
the headwaters of the Susquehanna. 

On this part of the trip we catch a glimpse of Col. DuBois 
in the following extract from the diary of Lieut. Beatty of 
the 4th Penna. Line, part of Clinton's force. 

Monday, June 28, 1779. "This day the Col, and a number 
of officers with myself went to see Col. Dubois and his officers 
who were encamped at Low's Grove on the upper landing, 
found them all very well and they provided a very good dinner 



HISTORY OF A'EIV PALTZ 343 

for us suitable to the place and time, there was about fifty 
officers dined together. After dinner we had a song or two 
from different officers and returned home a little before sunt 
down. We were all very sociable at dinner and spent our 
lime with tlte officers very agreeable." 

Clinton remained at Lake Otsego from the 3d of July to the 
9th of August awaiting orders from Gen. Sullivan. When 
these orders came Clinton moved forward and effected a junc- 
tion with Sullivan. In organizing for the fighting and devas- 
tation which followed, the hazardous position of commanding 
the right flank was assigned to Col. Dubois, who had under 
him two companies of the German battalion and 200 picked 
men in addition. The army of Sullivan far outnumbered that 
of the Indians under the celebrated Chief Brant, aided by a few 
British regulars and tories. The enemy made but one serious 
effort to check the invaders. Behind a hastily constructed 
rampart, in the vicinity of Elmira, they made a stand, but were 
soon driven away. In this engagement Col. Dubois partici- 
pated. The victorious army then turned northward, and car- 
ried out the purpose of the expedition by burning many vil- 
lages and destroying all food supplies. It was a work of 
devastation, and many there be that say the measure was un- 
necessarily harsh. Be that as it may, the power of the Indians 
in this State was broken by this expedition of Gen. Sullivan. 

Lewis Dubois resigned his commission as colonel December 
29, 1779. This seems to have been brought about by the 
dwindling of all the regiments in the New "S'ork brigade, for 
in the subsequent year the ist and 3rd regiments were consoli- 
dated into one regiment, known as the ist, under Col. Van 
Schaick. and the 2nd, 4th and 5th and Col. Livingston's regi- 
ment into another, known as the 2nd, under Col. Philip Van 
Cortlandt. 



344 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

There remains for consideration such information as could 
be gathered concerning the descendants of the children of Col. 
Lewis Dubois. 

I — Nathaniel Dubois, his first child, died April 18. 1788, in 
the 30th year of his age. He left one daughter, Hannah, who 
was his only child. Nothing is known of her history. 

2 — \\'ilhelmus lived and died on the tract of land near Marl- 
borough village, given to him by his father's will. It ran from 
the village to the road known as West street and along the latter. 
His wife was Mary Hudson. They had four children. John, 
Cornelius. Elizabeth and Nathaniel. 

John married Rebecca \A'ygant and had four children. \\'il- 
liam, Matthew W'ygaut. Maria and Ann Eliza. 

Cornelius had three wives and ten children. Mary. Elizabeth, 
Sarah. Deborah Ann. Jane. Caroline, Charlotte. Daniel Asa 
and Ann Amelia. 

Elizabeth married John \V. W'ygani and had seven children, 
William D.. Asa. Cornelius. Ostrom. Marv lane. T. Ward and 
Elizabeth. 

Nathaniel married Deborah Ann liloonier and had eleven 
children. l*"Ietcher, Charles Augustus, Elizabeth Wygant, Mary 
Louisa. Eugene. Hudson, Emma, Ann Amelia, Theron. LiUher 
and Dallas. 

3 — Mary, the first daughter, married Asa Steward. She was 
living in the t(»wn of Minisink as late as 181 1. She had two 
daughters, I'.lizabeth and Margaret. 

4 — Rachel, the first daughter by his second wife, married Cor- 
nelius Low, bv whom she bad one daughter, Cornelia, bom 



HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 345 

March 5. 1792. Rachel Low (hcd November 6, 1793, in her 
23rd year. 

Nothing is known of the career of her daughter, Corneha 
Low. CorneHus Low is said to have been a prominent man of 
Kingston antl to have taken up, with others, ku-ge tracts of 
land in W'awarsing. 

5 — Lewis (4) was born December 20, 1774, and was bap- 
tized at New Marlborough by Rev. Samson Occum. He was 
married to Annie Hulk daughter of Nathaniel Hull, January 
3. 1809. She was born February 15, 1787. Lie died August 
22, 1831. His children were as follows: 

Rachel Margaret, born October T, 1809, married to Lewis 
W. Young June 28, 1827. She died at Newburgh March 21, 
1890. Her children were Julit^t. Henrietta and Jas. Henry. 

Lewis (5), born June 28, 181 1, married Jane Thorn. He 
died December 11. 1854. He had one child, a son named 
Charles, who died about 1870, leaving issue. 

Amanda, born January 25, 181 3, married Samuel Harris in 
1831. She died October 25, 1875. Mr. Harris purchased the 
Dulx)is homestead at a partition sale held in 1842. and his son 
William now resides on it. The children of Samuel ILirris 
and Amanda Dubois Harris were Francis. Emily, Lla. Jessie 
and William. 

Melissa, born May 20, 1814, married William C. Goddard 
and died March, 1892. She lived in Brooklyn, New York, 
after her marriage. Her children were Edward. William, 
Emily and Adeline. 

Nathaniel Hull, born December zy, 181 5. He had two chil- 
dren, a son Solomon, who died in infancy, and a daughter, 
Julia Ferris. He is still living at Marlborough. LUster county. 



346 HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

Elizabetli, born June i, 1817, died Auj^ust 17, i8iy. 

Daniel Lockwood, born Auj^ust 29, 1819, died July 6, 1862. 
Never married. 

Clementine Williams, born June 4, 1821, married January 
14, 1845, to Reuben H. Rohrer, of Lancaster, Pa., where she 
lived and died. Her children were four sons, Dubois, Reuben 
S., Leland and Mifflin. 

Cornelia Bruyn, born November 9, 1822, married May 6, 
1840, to Nathaniel Deyo, M. D. She died at Newburgh, De- 
cember 16, 1876. Her children, who lived to maturity, were 
EveUna, Robert Emmet, Frank DeWitt, Nathaniel Dubois, 
John. \'an Zandt and Cornelia Ann. 

Daniel Lockwood (2), born August 29, 1819. died July 6, 
1862, unmarried. 

Anna, born November 18, 1826, married June 16, 185 1, to 
Henry E. Lcman, of Lancaster, Pa., where she died April 22, 
1873. Her children were Henry E., Samuel \\'.. Adelia, Lewis 
D. and James C. 

Marcus Dougherty, born June 4, 1828, now living at New 
Windsor, Orange county, unmarried. 

6 — Margaret, born January 29, 1776, and was baptized at 
New Marlborough by Rev. Mr. Carr from Goshen. She died 
May 6, 1855. 

She married Daniel Lockwood about 1790 and had — 

Rachel Lockwood, born August 26, 1792, and died Decem- 
ber 29, 1793. 

Lewis D. Lockwood. born August 8, 1794; died May 3, 
1874. 

Daniel Lockwood, born August 8, 1797. 

I'^Ii T. Lockwood, born .April 14. 1800; died January 27, 1848. 

Charles Lockwood, born November 17. 1802; died July i, 
1829. 



HISTORY O/' NEW FALTZ 347 

Nathaniel D. Lockwood, born Fe])riiary 6, 1804; "was 
drowned on fast day," January 12, 181 5. 

Daniel Lockwood, the first husband of Margaret Dubois, 
died November 27, 1804. 

On August 25, 1814, she married Gen. Nathaniel Dubois, 
the son of her uncle Zachary, and had — 

Isaac Dubois, born July 12, 1815; died August, 18, 1876. 

Edwin Lockwood Dubois, born October 2, 1817; died Feb- 
ruary 5, i860. 



348 If [STORY OF XEJl' PALTZ 




mi: Ol.lt KKKKK HOUSE AT NEW PALTZ 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 349 

CHAPTER XXX 

^TiiK Frei:r Family at New Paltz 

The Freer family of New Paltz and elsewhere in the United 
States is descended from Hugo Freer, one of the New Paltz 
patentees. 

Hugo was one of the last of the little band to arrive at 
Kingston. There is no mention of his name previous to the 
purchase of the New Paltz patent from the Indians in 1677. 
He probably had just arrived in the country at that time. 
He was accompanied by his wife, IMary Haye, and their three 
eldest children, Hugo, Abraham and Isaac. 

In the papers that have come down to the present time there 
are more in the French language among the descendants of 
Hugo Freer than of any of the other Patentees, which seems 
to indicate that he had not been very long absent from his 
native country when he came to New Paltz. 

When the church was organized at New Paltz in 1683 Hugo 
Freer was chosen deacon, and in 1690 .he was elder in the 
church. This would show that he was a man of known piety 
and excellent standing among the brethren in the little com- 
munity. 

Most of the other settlers at New Paltz were related by 
marriage. But neither Hugo the Patentee nor any of his chil- 
dren married New Paltz people. A good portion of the chil- 
dren and grandchikiren of Hugo the Patentee married and 
settled outside the bounds of the New Paltz patent, going to 
Kingston, to Dutchess county and elsewhere. Still among his 
numerous descendants many remained at New Paltz. 

During the first century after the settlement there was per- 



350 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

haps no family that furnished a larj^^aT proportion of eminent 
men than the descendants of Hu^o Freer the Patentee. 

The Freers of colonial days had means and piety as well. 
The Bontecoe Freers, cultivating the lowlands on the Wallkill 
in the great bend of the stream, above Dashville Falls, would 
walk barefoot five miles to church at New Paltz in summer, 
putting on their shoes when near the village. But when the 
time came to put up the new stone church in 1772, the Freer 
family contributed considerably more than one-fourth of the 
whole amount needed, and two of the name served on the 
building committee. 

Tradition states that one year the Freers paid the whole 
amount of the quit rent due from the New Paltz settlers to 
the colonial government and in return received 200 acres of 
land at ?^Iud Hook, near the north west corner of the New 
Paltz Patent. 

In the Revolutionary war the Freers furnished a large number 
of officers and men, the list including Col. John Freer and Capt. 
Jacobus Freer of Dutchess county and Lieuts. Daniel Freer 
and Anthony Freer of Ulster, also about a score of private 
soldiers. 

At the commencement of the last century Samuel Freer of 
Kingston was for many years a noted newspaper man, editing 
the Gazette. If not the very first, he is at least the best re- 
membered editor of the first quarter of the last century. He 
used to carry his papers on horseback to his patrons at New 
Paltz and elsewhere, and it is related that when asked if he had 
news to tell would answer in Dutch. "Always news when the 
paper comes." 

In the second war with Fngland. Capt. Zachary Freer of New 
Paltz served as a captain, his regiment being stationed on 
Long Island. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 351 

The Freers left the village at an early date. Not a single 
tombstone bearing the name or initials of any member of the 
family is to be found in the old graveyard here. The old home- 
stead in this village passed from Hugo Freer, senior, son of 
the Patentee, to his son-in-law, Johannis Low, whose de- 
scendants occupied it for a long time. 

The Freers scattered widely during the colonial period, and 
for that reason it has been difficult to trace their history. The 
family was most numerous at ]>ontecoe. The old graveyard 
there is probably next to that in this village the oldest in the 
Patent. Among the Bontecoe Freers the name of their an- 
cestor Hugo was continued from generation to generation, but 
has now died out and the last Hugo in this vicinity died at 
his home at Bontecoe at a good old age about 1850. 

In the old days it was not customai^ for laymen to take part 
in the services in church. It is stated that the only man to 
raise his voice in public prayer in the New Paltz church 
at about 1820 was Jonathan Freer of the Ohioville neigh- 
borhood. 

None of the Freers of the early days were merchants, as fai 
as we know, and none of them made or sold whiskey, that we 
are aware of. 

The Freer homestead in this village is the northernmost of 
the old stone houses on Huguenot street. It is still occupied 
as a residence, is in a good state of repair and has not been 
changed much since the olden times, except that the great 
beams have been cut down and there is no longer a great fire- 
place. The house is about 40 feet in length and 35 in width, 
including a small, frame addition in the rear. 

Hugo Freer, the Patentee, was twice married, his first wife 
being Mary Have and the second Jannitje Wibau. The chil- 
dren of Hugo, the Patentee, were: Hugo, Senior. Abrahani, 



35^ // / ^" T O RY O F X 11 W P A LT Z 

Isaac (who died when i8 years old), Jacob, Jean, Mary and 
Sarah. The first named daughter married Lewis Viele of 
Schenectady, and the other married Teunis Clausen Van \'olgen 
of the same place. The three eldest sons of Hugo, the Paten- 
tee, located at New Paltz and Jean moved to Kingston. 

Mary, the daughter of Hugo the Patentee and wife of Lewis 
Viele of Schenectady, sold her one-sixth part of her father's 
estate to her brother Hugo for £83, as is shown by a document 
dated 1710, which among many other papers of Hugo Freer, 
Senior, has come down to the present day and is now in the 
possession of the writer. 

Jean Freer, son of the Patentee, who had located at Kings- 
ton, also sold to his brother Hugo, Senior, his share, one-sixth 
part, of the estate of their father. The sale was made in 1713 
and the price paid was iSo. 

Hugo, Senior, Son of Hugo, Patentee 

Hugo, Senior, eldest son of the Patentee, was married in 
1690 to Mary LeRoy, by Rev. Pierre Dailie. 

In June, 1715. Hugo, Senior, and his sons, Hugo, Junior, 
Isaac and Simon, who moved to Dutchess county, obtained a 
patent for 1,200 acres of land about three miles south east of 
this village and near the Paltz patent. On this tract Isaac 
located and it has come down in his family to the present day. 

Hugo, Senior's, name appears in the list of those who built 
the first stone church, in 1720, and he and his eldest son, Hugo, 
Junior, are assigned seats in the church. In the list of free- 
holders in 1728 appear the names of his sons Hugo, Junior, 
and Isaac. 

From tile "New Paltz Orders" in 1710 it is evident that 
Hugo, Soninr, resided iti the ni>rtluTii ])arl of the villa-^e. The 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 353 

exact location and other facts are set forth in a release granted 
to his 13 children in 1732 as follows: 

This indentnre made the 29111 dav June, in the sixth year of 
the rei'^n of our sovereign, George the second, by the grace 
of God, of Great Britain France and Ireland, king, defender of 
the faith. &c., Anno Domini, 1732, between Hugo Freer senior, 
of the New Paltz. in the county of Ulster and province of New 
York, yeoman, of the first part, and Hugo junior, Isaac, Simon, 
Jonah. Mary wife of Isaac LeFevre, Sarah wife of Evert Tcr- 
williger, Esther wife of John Terpening, Catharine wife of 
Isaac \'an Wagonen, Dina wife of Michael Van Kleeck, 
Rachel wife of Hendrick TerBoss, Janitje, Rebecca (after- 
wards wife of Johannes Low) and Elizabeth all of them 
sons and daughters of Hugo Freer senior of the other 
part, witnesseth, that in consideration of the sum of five 
shiliin-^^s. current money of New York to him in hand paid 
by the said 13 children he hath granted to the said 4 sons 
and 9 daughters all that certain lot of land in the New Paltz 
Patent, near the north end of the town (village) of New 
Paltz, on the east side of the street, being bounded to the 
west by the street aforesaid, to the south by the house lot 
of Daniel Hasbrouck. to the east by Andries Lefever, to the 
north b\ the said Andries Lefever and the street aforesaid, 
to-'cther with all buildings, houses, barns, stables, yards, gar- 
dens, orchards and other improvements ; also all that other 
cctain jjiece of land lying and being within the limits and 
bounds of the New Paltz, liounded to the east by the said street, 
to the south by the house lots of Daniel Dul'x^is, to the west 
bv the said lots in W'assamakos land, and to the north by lot 
of Mattys Sleght. and also all that other lot or piece of ground 
bein-^ a lot which the said Hugo Freer senior hath purchased 



354 HISTORY Of Xlill I'.ILTZ 

of Anthony Crispell. deceased lying on the east side of said 
street, bein^ boimded to the west by the street aforesaid, to the 
south by a lot of Andries Lefever. to the east b\ the said An- 
dries Lefever and to the north by a lane that leads to Daniel 
liasbrouck's mill ; also all that certain lot lyingj in the great 
pature within the lx)unds of the patent of New Paltz bounded 
on the west by the road that leads to W'alravens bourey, to the 
south by a lot of John Terpening. to the east by the Paltz 
common or undivided lands, and to the north by a lot of Daniel 
DuBois. and also all that four-sixth the parts of him the said 
Hugo Freer, senior of the one-twelfth part of the undivided 
lands there now are lying undivided and in common witliin the 
limits and bounds of the Patent of New Paltz aforesaid, which 
was granted by the said letters patent unto Hugo Freer, de- 
ceased, together with all ponds, pools, etc., etc.. * * yield- 
ing and paying therefor unto the said Hugo Freer senior his 
heirs or assigns the rent of one pepper corn only on the first 
day of May next ensuing if demanded. * * * -> 

Hugo Freer, Senior, 
his mark. 

The most extensive and interesting collection of papers in 
archaic French that has come down to the present day is that 
once the property of Hugo Freer, Senior, which has come down 
in the family of his son J'^nah. and passed from father to son 
in that family. 

An Ancient .\nd Interesting Letter 

Perhaps the most interesting document in the Freer collection 
of ancient papers is a letter written in 1699 to Mrs. Hugo Freer, 
Sen., bv her uncle. Jean Giron of Quebec, now framed in glass 



HISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 



355 






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LKTTKK FROM JKAN OIkON lu 11L(.0 IKKtK, SK., AND WIFE 



356 HISTORY 01- A/f//' P.ILTZ 

and deposited in the Memorial House. Thr*>ut;h the kin(hiess 
of Mr. Alfred LeRoy Becker of Buffalo we are enabled to 
publish a full translation. Mr. Becker writes concerning this 
letter : 

"It is addressed to '?^ly nephew Huge and my niece Huge' 
by which the writer means Hugo Freer, Sr., son of the patentee, 
and his wife, Marie Anne LeRoy, whom he married, according 
to the record of the Xew Paltz church. June 7, 1690. The 
letter was written nine years later, but news of the marriage 
had apparently only just reached the writer. The letter is 
written in a fair if cramped hand, but it shows air almost total 
lack of knowledge of how to sj)ell, so that it has been extremely 
difficult to make the translation which is given herewith. 

De quebet Le tme aouiest 1699. 

Mon niucur ( nevcu ) huge Et ma niesse huge. 

Jes (J'ai) bicn hu (eu) de la Joies davoier resu une lestre 
De vous par laquelle vous memandes que vous Este bien 
maries Jeannoris (J'en aurais) ancore (enc<^re) bein. jilus 
si ses toy (c'estoit) que vous fusies maries a notrc religion 
si sestoy (c'estoit) p * * * * * (hole in MS. Should 
"par le" be supplied?) Constanteman (consentment) de votre 
beauperre Et bellemerre ( . I vous me mandes que votre perre 
Et votre merre mon EsCrit ( m'ont escrit) mes Je ne nannes 
poien on (Je n'en ai point eu?) de nouuelle (.) Je vous pris (.) 
si vous trouues Do Cazion (D'occasion) de nous mande Car 
nous serion bien hesze (aise) de savoier de vous nouuelle (,) 
moy Et votre tante (.) votre frcre Et votre berleseur (belles- 
oeur) vous salus Et moy Et votre tante nous vous saluon Je 
demeurc votre seruitcur Jean giron. 



HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 357 

Translation. 

Quebec, August 17th, 1699. 

My nephew Nugi^e and my niece Huge : 

I have indeed been rejoiced to have received a letter from 
you b}- which you inform me that you are well married. I 
should be still more rejoiced if it was that you w^ere married 
in (^)ur religion, if it was by the consent of your father-in-law 
and mother-in-law. ( That is, if l)y the consent of Hugo Freer's 
father and mother, she was married to him according to the 
forms of the Catholic church.) You inform me that your 
father and mother have written me, but I have had no news of 
them whatever. I beg of you, if you find occasion, to write to 
us, for we should be very glad to have news of you, — your 
aunt and T. Your brother and your sister salute you and your 
aunt and 1. we salute you. I remain, your servant, 

Jean giron. 

"Jean (iiron came from France to Canada and bought a farm 
on the River St. Charles, near Quebec. He married one of 
three orjihan sisters who came to Xew France in this year, 
Madeleine Des Chalets. He was from Creances, bishopric of 
Coutances, in Manche, the long finger with Cherbourg at the 
tip which i)oints from the north of France into the English 
("hanncl. In the same year Simeon Le Roy." who was a master 
carpenter, bought land next to his l)rother-in-law on the River 
St. Charles. He remained in Quebec until 1679 or later, but 
in 1 68 1 he iiad removed to Montreal. While he was in Canada 
he appears to have been a Catholic, for all his children were 
baptized by the priests. In 1682 he was in Albany, and there- 



358 HISTORY OP X EW PALTZ 

after he lived in Kingston, where he was as late as 1701. In 
1704, however, he probably left there and he was a witness at 
the baptism of one of his grandchildren on Staten Island, in 
1706 or 1707. Through his son Francis he was the head of 
the Le Roy family, originally of Dutchess county, and through 
his son Leonard, or "Jonar" as the Dutch called it, corrupting 
the French sound, he was the head of the "Laraway" family, 
originally of Schoharie county. All of his children, except 
Jean, w^ho is mentioned in the letter and remained in Canada, 
married either Huguenots or Hollanders and became Protes- 
tants." 

In the will of Hugo Freer, Senior, which was written in 
1728. a number of years before his death, he appointed his 
brothers, Abraham, Jacob and Jean, and his friend. Aart \'an 
Wagenen, as executors. 

Nearly all of the Freers in this vicinity are descended from 
Hugo, Senior. His brother Jean went to Kingston. His 
brother Abraham lived in New Paltz, as we have stated, for a 
time, but his sons scattered, one going to Dutchess county and 
another to Minnisink. The remaining brother of Hugo, Senior, 
Jacob, located on the west side of the Wallkill. near the Bonte- 
coe school house and his descendants lived in that locality and 
on the Rosendale Plains. 

The sons of Hugo, Senior, located as follows : J lugo, Junior, 
near the north borders of the patent; Isaac on the 1.200 acre 
tract obtained by patent; Jonah at "Klevne Bontecoe," at the 
present R. \'. N. lieaver place, near Springtown. Simon went 
to Dutchess county. The sons of Hugo, Senior, married as 
follows: Hugo, Junior, who was born in 1691, married, in 
1715. Rridgen Terpening; Isaac, who was born in 1693, mar- 
ried, in 1723, Mary Deyo. daughter of Pierre the Patentee; 
Jonah married, in 1727. Catharine Stokhard. wlu> wa*; born in 



HISTORY OP NEJV PALTZ 359 

Germany. Simon married, in 1720, Mariten Wamboon at 
Kingston. The sons of Hngo Freer, Junior, who married 
Bridgen Terpcning and located at Bontecoe, near the present 

school house, were Hugo, who married Van Aken ; 

John, who married Hagetta Deyo, in 1749; Benjamin, who 
married Elizabeth Terwilliger, and Garret, who married Maria 
Freer, in 1748. In the list of taxpayers in 1765 we find the 
names of Hugo Freer, Junior, and his sons, Hugo, John, Ben- 
jamin and Garret. The three first named lived at Bontecoe. 
Neither Benjamin or John left children. Garret is the ancestor 
of Fzekiel Freer of the Grahow neigliborhood. Hugo lived 
in the Jeremiah Freer place of modern times. 

In the list of soldiers in the Revolutionary war appear the 
names of Hugo, John, Garret and Benjamin Freer in the First 
or Northern Regiment. 

In the subscription list for the building of the second stone 
church at New Paltz, in 1772, appear the names of Hugo, 
John, Benjamin and Garret Freer, Jr. Hugo Freer subscribed 
i25, being one of the largest subscriptions made. Hugo Freer 
and Garret Freer, Jr., were members of the building com- 
mittee. ' ' 

The last Hugo at Bontecoe, who wrote his name Hugo B., 
died about 1850 and was the son of the Hugo above named 
and grandson of Hugo, Jr. He lived in the house, part stone 
and part frame, a short distance southwest of the Bontecoe 
school house. He inherited the farm from his uncle, Benjamin, 
who, as we have said, left nc^ children. 

All of the Bontecoe Freers are not of this line, a considerable 
portion being descended from Jacob Freer, son of Hugo the 
Patentee, who owned land on the west side of the Wallkill on 
the north bounds of the Tatent and ])nihal)ly located there some 
years before his nei)lu\v, I lugo, Junior. 



36o III STORY OF XEW I'ALTZ 

Isaac, Sun of 11lg(j, Sknior 

Isaac, the second son of Huj^o Freer, $eiii<jr. married Mariten 
Deyo and located on the tract of 1,200 acres wliere Zach. Freer, 
deceased, lived. Isaac's name appears in the list of Captain 
Hoffman's Company in 1716, also in the list of soldiers enrolled 
in this town in 1738. His old stone house was burned down 
about 1880. It is said that his house at first consisted of one 
room only, others being afterwards added. The sons of Isaac 
Freer (1) were Isaac, born in 1734. and Daniel, Jr., born in 
1743. He had several dauj;hters. Isaac Freer and his wife 
Maritje united with the church at New Paltz in 1752. Isaac's 
son Isaac married Hester Jansen. Daniel married, in i7^>5, 
Annitje Deyo. In the Revolutionary war Daniel was lieutenant 
in the First Comjjany, Third Rei::iment Ulster County ]\lilitia. 
and the names of Isaac and Thomas Freer appear as privates 
in the same regiment. In the list of subscriptions to the build- 
ing of the second stone church, in 1772. ap])ear the names of 
Isaac Freer for £15, Daniel Freer £2.15 and Daniel I'reer, Jr., 
for iio. The sons of Isaac Freer and Hester Jansen were 
Thomas, born in 1760; Isaac, born in I7'^5; Zacharias, born 
in 1769. The last named kept the old homestead and married 
Rachel Dul'ois, daughter of Hendricus DuBois of Xoscatack. 
Their children were Thomas, Henry D. P... Johannes, Isaac 
and Maria. In the war of 181 2 Zacharias h'recr was a captain. 
his regiment being stationed in Long Island. Zacharias held 
the old stone homestead of the family and from him it ])assed 
into the possession of his son. Henry D. I'. It was burned 
about 1880 and whatever old papers were in the house were 
Ir.st in the fire. 



HISTORY Ol- \ liir I'.ILTZ 361 

Jonas, Son (jf Hugo, Sicniok 

Jonas, son of Hu_q;o. Senior, married Catharine Stokhard, 
who was of German birth, and Uvcd at "Kleyne Bontecoc," 
near Spring^town, on what is now the R. \ . N. Beaver place; 
Jonas' name appears in the Hst of soldiers in this town in 1738. 
In the tax list of 17()5 he is set down for £25, which indicates 
that he was in prett\' comfortable circumstances for those days. 
In his will, executed in 1775, Jonas disposes of his property as 
follows : after providing for his widow, Catharine, he gives 
to his son, Jonas, the farm on which the son then lived on the 
east side of the W'allkill. This passed from Jonas (2) to his 
son Elias. and then to Elias' sons, Stephen and Peter W. A. 
Jonas ( 1 ) in his will gives to his son Simon the tract on which 
the testator lived at Klcyne liontecoe; to his sons, Johannes 
and P^lisa. land on the Swartekill, in the town of Xewburgh, 
which he had bought of John I'reevost. This was on what is 
now called South street, in the present town of Lloyd. To his 
remaining son. Petrus. is given in Jonas' will the place on 
which he lived, which was purchased of Christian Deyo. and 
£()0 of money. Petrus moved to Dutchess county. 

We have not traced the history of this branch of the family 
further, except in the case of Johaiuies ( in English John ) , 
who located near the present Clintt^ndale depot on land which 
his father had bought of John Preevost. He wrote his name 
Johannes, jr. Mis wife was .*^arah. daughter of .\bm. P)e\ier. 
of Xew I'altz. Ilis second son. Martinas. born in 1762. emi- 
grated, about 1800. to western Xew York and su])sef|uently to 
f )hi(). Attorney-Cieneral Romeo II. I'reer. of Ilarrisville, West 
\ irginia. and Attorney Charles breer. of Warren, ( )hio. are 
grandsons of Martinas. 

The most extensive collection of ancient ])a])i'rs that we have 



362 JIISTOKV Of XL II' r.lLTZ 

found anywhere has come down in the family of Jonas Freer. 
This collection includes letters, wills, receipts, deeds, etc. 
Some of the papers are in English, some in Dutch and many 
in French. Quite a number are dated previous to 1700. One. 
dated in 1691, bears the signature of Rev. Pierre Daillie, the 
first pastor of the New Paltz church; another, dated in 1699. 
bears the signature of his successor. Rev. David Bonrejxjs. 
There are in the collection three papers, in French, in the hand 
writing and bearing the signature of Louis DuBois the Paten- 
tee, who died in 1696. Another paper, in English, dated 1710. 
is in the handwriting and bears the signature of Roelif Eltinge, 
the first of the line at New Paltz. but at that time still residing 
in Kingston and already a Justice of the Peace. Other papers 
bear the signatures of the Patentees Abraham Hasbrouck and 
Louis Bevier; another has the signature of Moses Cantine. 
ancestor of the Cantine family. One of the most interesting 
papers is a tax list of the precinct in 1712. in English, which 
shows that four of the Patentees were living at that time, 
namely. Louis Bevier. Abraham Hasbrouck, Jean Hasbrouck 
and .\braham DuBois. A number of these papers have been 
framed in glass and placed in the Xew Paltz Memorial House. 
The most ancient papers in the collection were once the prop- 
erty of Hugo. Sen. Two letters, both in French, are addressed 
to him personally : one. dated in 1699, congratulates him on his 
marriage : the other, written 20 years later, speaks of the ship- 
ment of peas and other fann produce. WTien Hugo. Senior, 
died these old papers were taken to the residence of his son 
Jonas at Kleyne Bontecoe. who added to the collection what- 
ever valuable papers he had of his own. 

From Jonas Freer these papers evidently passed into the 
possession of his son Jonas ( 2). who lived where his son Elias 
and his grandson Stephen afterward resided. In each genera- 



HISTORY 01' NEW PALTZ 363 

tion such papers as were considered valuable were added to 
the collection. 

Jonas (2) left four sons: Elias, Simeon, Joshua and Jona- 
than, Jr. He also left three daughters that married, becoming 
the wives of Philip Schoonmaker, Abm. P. Schoonmaker and 
Archa P. Van Wagenen. 

Abraham, the Sox of Hugo the Patentee 

We will pass now to the history of Abraham, son of Hugo 
the Patentee. Abraham married, in 1694, Aagien Titesort. 
In 1705 he resided at Bontecoe, south of the present school- 
house, opposite the piece of lowland called the Half Moon. 
Abraham's name appears in the list of those who built the first 
stone church, in 1720. In the list of freeholders, in 1728, his 
name does not appear. Pie probably moved away, as we find 
in 1723 that he transferred his two seats in the church to his 
brother, Hugo. Senior. Abraham's sons w^ere Hugo Ab., 
Abraham, Jr., Solomon, William and Philip. Hugo Ab. mar- 
ried Marytje Dewitt, at Kingston, in 1720. His name appears 
as a soldier in Captain Hoffman's company in 17 16. Solomon 
married Claritje Westvaal and located at jMinnisink. 

Solomon's son Johannes married Hester Lounsberry. His 
family P.ihle, dating back to 1749. was in the possession of his 
great-great-grandson, Nathan INI. Freer, late of Chicago. 

Johannes' son, John J., was a soldier in the Revolution and 
died at New Paltz in 1828. The Bible afterwards came into 
the possession of John J.'s son, Elias, who died at Lockport, 
111., in 1868. and then passed into the possession of his son, 
S. C. Paine Freer, a prominent citizen of Chicago and father 
of Nathan M. Freer, lately deceased. 

William, son of Abraham, married, in 1729, Maryanette 
\'an Kuykiiulall of Minnisink. He is set down as living at 



364 HISTONV OF Mlir PA LT Z 

New Paltz. Their sons were Ilenjaniin. Jacob ami Abraham. 
Pliih]) moved to Dutchess county, and in 1735 marrieil Catha- 
rine Scliarp of Clavcrack. Abraham, Jr., in 1720, married, at 
Kin.ijston. Janitje De.ijraff. He then Hved at Xew Pahz. In 
1734 he married at Pouj^hkeepsie (where he evidently then 
resided) as his second wife, Johanna Louis, widow of I'eter 
\"an Bome. They had a son, Johannes (in Encjlish John) 
baptized in 1739. This is undoubtedly the Col. John Freer 
who commanded the 4th Dutchess County Rep^iment in the 
Revolution. Abraham, Jr., had another son. Thomas, bap- 
tized in 1747. in Poufjhkeepsie. The I'reer family increased 
in numbers in Poucjhkeepsie, and a portion of that city was 
called Freertown down to modem times. At Rhinebeck also 
the names of a number of Freers are recorded in the church 
record. 

Jacor, Sox of Hi'go the P.xtentei-: 

Jacob Freer, son of Husjo the Patentee, was l)orn in i''>79. 
He married, in 1705. Aritje \'an Wai^fen. He owned land at 
Bontecoe, in 1730. on the west side of the Wallkill. adjoiniufj^ 
the tract belong^iiiij to the Eans and .still known as the Half 
Moon, and he ])robably lived there. His name ai)pears as one 
of those who built the old stone church at Xew. Paltz in 1720; 
also as one of the soldiers in Capt. Hoffman's comjiany in 171 5. 
and as one of the freeholders in the town in 1728. Jacob's 
sons were .\braham and Isaac (twins): Jacob, born in 1742; 
Daniel and (.'ornelis. The son. Jacob, Jr.. lived in the same 
neighborhood. His name appears on the tax list of the pre- 
cinct of Xew Paltz. in I7^>5. for £12. In the building- of the 
second stone church at New Paltz. in 1772. JaciMi I'^reer. Jr., 
contributed £12 and Jacob J. bVeer £3 los. In 1775 the name 
of Jacob I-'reer. Jr., appears as one of the con.sistory of the Xew 
Paltz church. His wife was Sarah l>eer. 



HISTORY OF XEir I'ALTZ 365 

Jkan, Son of Hugo tiik Patentee 

Jean, the yount;cst son of JIu.^o I'recr, the Patentee, was 
born in 1682. He married Rebecca \'an Wagenen about 1707. 
He was a resident of Kingston in 1720, as is shown by a bond 
given by him to his brother. Hugo, Senior, in that year, now 
in possession of the writer. Jean's name does not appear in 
the Hst of those who Iniilt the first stone church at New Paltz 
in 1 718, nor in the list of freeholders of the town in 1728. He 
doubtless moved to Kingston when a young man and continued 
to reside there. 

The children of Jean Freer and Rebecca \ an Wagenen were 
Sara, born 1708; Gerrit, born 1711; Jannitje, born 1714; 
Marytje, born 1716; Jacob, born 17 19; Rebecca, born 
1726. 

Gerritt's name appears on the list of foot soldiers in Kings- 
ton, in 1738. He married, in 1735, Elizabeth Van Vliet. They 
had one son, William. 

Jacob married, in 1754, Annitje Van Aken of Kingston. In 
the record on the church book Jacob is said to have been of 
\\''agondahl (the old name for Creek Locks). The children 
of Jacob Freer and Annitje \'an Aken were Jan, born in 1755, 
Jacob, born in 1758; Peter, born in 1760; Gerrit, born in 
1765; Annitje, born in 1776. 

Gerritt married, in 1786, Gertje \ an X'liet. Both are set 
down in the marriage as then residing in Kingston. They 
resided at New Salem, where their son, John G., afterwards 
lived and carried on the milling business. 

The children of Gerritt J. Freer and Geritje \'an Miet were 
Selitje, born in 1787; Lidia, born July 3, 1791 : Jan (in Eng- 
lish John), born March 29, 1793; l^.londini, born 1796; Gerrit, 
born in I7<)8: Cornelia, liorn in 181 1 ; William, born in 1804. 



366 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

John wrote his name John G. He married Dina Rose and 
resided on the farm of his father at New Salem. He was en- 
gaged with his father in the milling: business in his early years 
near New Salem, in the town of Esopus, and also owned the 
Eddyville ferry. Tn 1S26 he built a stone house still 
standing. 



HISTORV OF XEir PALTZ 367 




THE ABRAHAM HASBROUCK HOUSE IN THIS VILLAGE 



3'xS HISTORY OF Mi IT P A LT Z 



CHAPTER XXXI 

TllK I'AMILV OK Ar.KAIIAM HaS1U<()L'CK, Tllli PaTKNTKE 

Abraham Hasbrouck, the I'atcntcc. has a numerous hue of 
descendants in L'lster. ( )raui;e and Dutchess counties. 

The two brothers, Abraham and John (in French Jeanj 
Hasbrouck (or Uroecq, as the name was sometimes written), 
were natives of Calais. Like others of the Paltz patentees, 
they emii;rated to Manlieim. in the Palatinate, which was in 
those days the great harbor of refuge for the Huguenots fly- 
ing from persecution in France. Abraham Hasbrouck, like- 
wise, probably resided in Holland. Quite certain it is that he 
lived for a time in England and |Served in the Plnglish army. 
He received his commission as lieutenant of a company of foot 
for Xcw Paltz and Kingston. August 30. 1685. In 1689 he 
was appointed as "captain of foot at Ye Paltz, Ulster county." 

Under the date of 1700 in a foot company appear the names 
of the following officers: Almi. Hasbrouck. captain; Moses 
Quantin. lieutenant : Lewis l>evier, ensign. 

In the records of the Kingston church, under date of 1676. 
appears the following marriage entry : "Abraham Ilasbroocq 
of Calis and .Maria Deyo (of) Moeterstat in Duyslant." 

I'efore coming to New Paltz. and while residing at Hurley. 
he was appointed Justice. 

Tradition states that Abraham Hasbrouck served in the Eng- 
lish army with Gov. Edmund Andross. and that it was owing 
to his influence with the Colonial Ciovernor that the Huguenots 
obtained the grant of so large and fnie a tract of land at Xcw 
Paltz. 



HISrOKY Ol' XEir PALTZ 369 

In the diary of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston, who 
was a grandson of Abraham Hasbrouck the Patentee, it is 
stated that liis grandfather left Mannheim, where he resided with 
his father, went to Rotterdam and thence to Amsterdam, where 
he embarked for England in April, 1675. From England he 
sailed to Boston, from thence he proceeded to Esopus, where 
he found his brother Jean, who had come tp America three 
years before. 

Quite possibly Abraham may have served in the English 
army and then gone back to his home in Mannheim before he 
left that place for the new world. Abraham reached Esopus 
in July, 1675. The next year he married, at Hurley, Maria 
Deyo, daughter of Christian Deyo, a young woman with whom 
he had been acquainted in the Palatinate and who was one of 
the passengers with him on the passage across the ocean to 
America. 

Abraham died March 7, 171 7, in an apoplectic fit. His wife 
died March 27, 1741, in her 88th year. They left a family 
of five sons, Joseph, Solomon, Daniel, Jonas and Benjamin, 
and one daughter, Rachel, who married Louis DuBois, Jr. 

Joseph married Ellsje Schoonmaker and located at Guilford. 
Solomon married Sarah \^an Wagenen and located about i^ 
miles north of this village. Daniel married Wyntje Deyo and 
kept his father's homestead. Jonas probably died young. 
Benjamin married Jannitje DeLong and moved to Dutchess 
county. 

The home of Abraham the Patentee, in this village, was built 
lirectly across the street from the present Refomied (Dutch) 
church. The old stone house, still standing, was possibly built 
by Abraham, but perhaps by his son Daniel, in whose line it 
has come straight down. There is no date on the old stone 
house to mark the time of its erection. Like other of the ancient 



370 HISTORY Of X Jill' PALTZ 

houses in this villai;e. it had loniicrly a sub-ct.Har. whioli has 
been filled in durinL,^ the last century. 

The house is about sixty feet in lenjjth and thirty in width. 
It has evidently been erected at different times, the northern 
part at a later date than the other portion. There are initials 
on the stones at the northeast and southwest corners of the 
building, but so worn by the elements that it is impossible to 
decipher them. This house has not been modernized since its 
erection. The chimney in the north end is built in the wall. 
There is a cellar kitchen in this portion of the buildiuj^. One 
or two rooms have been finished off in the loft. It is one of 
the most antitiue in ap])earance of the old houses in our village. 
It is still occupied and still a comfortable house. 

Daxikl, Son of Abraham thk Patkntee 

Daniel, born in Km)2. kept his father's homestead in this 
village. We find his name in the list of freeholders in 1728, 
also in the list of slave owners in 1755. He did not marry 
until in 1734, when 42 years of age. His wife was W'yntje 
Deyo, daughter of Abm. Deyo of this village, who was the son 
of Pierre Deyo the Patentee. Daniel had a large family of 
sons and daughters and the name Daniel has been handed down 
in this branch of the Hasbrouck family until the present day. 
Daniel died in 1759. His widow long survived him and con- 
tinued to occu])y with her six sons the old stone house, still 
standing, opposite the Reformed church. Daniel Rose, who 
is a descendant of Daniel Hasbrouck. has in his possession an 
abstract of his will, dated January 26. 1754. The will gives 
to each of his sons. Jonas. Josaphat. David. Isaiah. Benjamin 
and Zachariah. one-sixth of his jiroperty ; to the daughter, 
I'llsie. who married Peter Smedes. three milch cows and £200 



HISTORY OP XJiir IWLTZ 371 

of New York currcncv. The will directs that the widow shall 
retain possession of the property, hoth real and personal, as 
long as she remains a widow, but that if she marries again she 
shall give up possession of the property to the children. In 
the tax list of 1765 we find the property all assessed to Wyntje 
Hasbrouck, and she was one of the wealthiest residents of the 
community. The old homestead in this village passed into 
the |X)ssession of Daniel's son, Isaiah, who married Mary Be- 
vicr, who, like her mother-in-law, was left a widow with a 
large family of children. The children of Isaiah Hasbrouck 
were Ezekiel, Isaiah, Josiah, Noah, Elsie and i\Iary. The last 
named, who did not marry, owned the old homestead until her 
death, about 1880. The brothers, Isaiah and Josiah, settled in 
Sullivan county. Xoah lived where his son-in-law, Abm. R. 
DuBois, afterwards resided. 

From Mary Hasbrouck the old homestead passed into the 
possession of Isaiah Hasbrouck, who now owns it. 

Josaphat, another of the sons of Daniel Hasbrouck, married 
Cornelia DuBois. They have but one descendant of the male 
line living at the present day, that is Daniel A. Hasbrouck of 
this village, who is the only great-grandson. However, Josa- 
phat and his wife, Cornelia DuBois, left three sons, Zachariah, 
Simon and Andrics. 'J'he two first mentioned did not marry 
and lived in the Clintondale neighborhood in the house still 
owned by the family with their brother, Andries, who mar- 
ried FJizabeth Hasbrouck. Zachariah lived to a vigorous old 
age and is well remembered by the peoi)le of the present 
generation. 

Jonas, another son of Daniel, lived on the other side of the 
mountains and married Catharine DuBois ; he left three sons, 

Josaphat. who married DuBois; Daniel, who married 

Margaret Schoonmaker, and Isaiah, who married Elizabeth 



372 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Westbrook and lived where Perry Deyo lately resided. Daniel 
I., of Gardiner, is their son. 

Daniel's son David married Maritje Houghland. They lived 
in what is now the Lewis H. Deyo house, near Butterville. 
They had but one son, William, who did not marry. David 
died March, 1806, and is buried in the southwest portion of 
the old graveyard in this village. In the same portion of the 
graveyard and enclosed in an iron railing, are the graves of 
his nephews, Daniel and Isaiah, and their wives, Margaret 
Schoonmaker and Elizabeth Westbrook, the last named of 
whom died in 1864, aged 75 years. This was the last inter- 
ment in the old graveyard. 

Zachariah. anpther of the six sons of Daniel Hasbrouck and 
Wyntje Deyo, married Rachel Waring. They had a son, John. 

Benjamin, the remaining one of the six sons of Daniel Has- 
brouck, married Mary Bevier. They lived on the farm now 
owned by their grandson, Daniel Rose, about one mile from 
this village on the Modena road. Benjamin left but one son, 
Daniel B., who kept the homestead, and one daughter, who 
married Peter Rose. Daniel B. left no children. 

Solomon, Son of Abraham the P.-vtentee 

Solomon was born in 1686 and married Sarah \'an Wagcnen 
in 1 72 1. They lived in a stone house about V/i miles north 
of this village and a quarter of a mile east of the Springtown 
bridge. This house, after being unoccupied for many years, 
tumbled into ruins about i860. There is a barn near by and 
about 100 yards south is a large old graveyard. Solomon had 
a large family of sons as follows : 

Abraham. Jr.. Jacobus. John. Daniel. Simon, Pctrus and 
Elias. Of .Abraham. Jr., Daniel and Simon we have no ac- 
count except that the first named married Rachel Sleight. 



HISTORY or NEW PALTZ 373 

Jacobus' son Benjamin owned what is known as the Simon 
L. DuBois farm near Springtown. He gave a Ufe estate in 
the farm to his son Abraham, who was the grandfather of 
John H. Hasbrouck and ]\lihon B. Hasbrouck. 

Of Petrus, John and Elias we have quite a complete 
record. 

Petrus Hved in the old stone house now owned by Mr. A. 
Neal, at ]\Iiddletown. This house was built for Petrus ; his 
wife was Sarah, daughter of Abm. Bevier. In Revolutionary 
times Petrus was second lieutenant in the second company of 
New Paltz militia, serving in Col. Johannis Hardenburgh's 
regiment, which regiment served from October 25, 1775, till 
1782 and saw much fighting. 

Petrus' children were Roelif, who lived at Springtown; 
Simon, who lived in the old homestead and died unmarried; 
Samuel, who married Lydia Crispell and inherited the old 
homestead ; Jeremiah, who married a Bruyn and moved to 
Elmira; Mathusalem, who married Maria Deyo and moved to 
Binghamton ; Solomon, who married Magdalen LeFevre and 
lived at Centerville ; Abram, who married Mary Blanshan and 
lived on what is now the John Morey farm at Bontecoe. Rcelif, 
the eldest son, was twice married. His first wife was Jane 
Elting. They had four children — all girls, Sarah, who mar- 
ried Wni. \V. Deyo; Catharine, who married Jacob Rose; 
Dinah, who married Jonathan LeFevre; Magdalen, who mar- 
ried Daniel DuBois. 

Rcielif's second wife was Maria DeWitt. They had three 
sons, DeWitt, Clinton and Charles B. The last named long 
carried on the mercantile business in this village in the building 
afterwards occupied by his nephew. Oscar C. Hasbrouck. 

Petrus" son Samuel was the father of Miss Cornelia Has- 
brouck and Mrs. Elihu Schoonmaker of this village, from the 



374 HISTORY OP XEir PALTZ 

latter of whom we have our information in regard to this 
branch of tlie Hasbrouck family. 

EHas Hasbrouck, the brother of Petrus Hasbrouck, moved 
to Kingston, where he engaged in the mercantile business, his 
store being located on the corner of Wall aild Main streets, 
opposite the First Reformed church. Elias commanded a 
company of rangers in the Revolutionary war and saw much 
active service. He was with Gen. Richard Montgomery in 
the attack on Quebec, in which Montgomery lost his life. He 
named one of his sons Montgomery in honor of his old com- 
mander and to his son, as well as all other sons of his old com- 
rades who were named for her husband, Gen. Montgomery's 
widow made a present of a gold ring. This ring passed from 

^lontgomery Hasbrouck to his daughter, Mrs. Kcator, 

who long resided with her son-in-law, Mr. Chas. Drake, in this 
village, and preserved the ring as a precious heirloom. From 
her we have full information of the family of Elias Hasbrouck. 
When the British burned Kingston, in the time of the Revolu- 
tionary war, the store of Elias Hasbrouck was consumed. 

After the war he went to Shandaken Willey. in Woodstock, 
where he bought a piece of land at what is now Lake Hill. 
Elias Hasbrouck's wife was Elizabeth Sleight of Esopus. They 
had a family of two daughters and five sons, Elias, John, Daniel, 
Montgomery and Peter. The last named moved to Kingston. 
The other brothers all settled on the tract purchased by their 
father in Woodstock, where they had farms adjoining each 
other. I^vo of Montgomery's sons, Daniel, late of Modena, 
and John \\'.. of Middlctown, Orange county, have taken an 
active interest in the family history. 

Going back now to John, the brother of Elias and Petrus, 
we find that he kept the homestead of his father, Solomon — 
that is the old stone house, afterwards owned and occupied by 



HISTORY OP XEW PALTZ 375 

Cliaiics KUinj;-. slandini;- a few rods west of the late residence 
of jas. Ean. which tumbled down about i860. 

jdhn I lashrduck left Iwo sons. John and . John was 

the only one who married. John's wife was a daughter of 
Win. McDonald, a Scotchman, who had a tannery about where 
the eastern end of the Si)rins.,ftown railroad bridije now is. John 
and his wife had fi)ur sons. Andrew. William. I'hilii) and John. 
Andrew and William emii^raled in their youth, the last named, 
we believe, to Florida. John went to Indiana and left a large 
family of children. l'hili[) residetl in the neighborhood all his 
life, his residence being directly across the street from the 
school house, b'or a great number of years he held the office 
of justice of the peace and was usually called '"Squire." He 
had three sons: Washington, I'eter and Kvert. The first 
named was a very prominent educational man. was the founder 
of the Hasbrouck Institute at Jersey City and was for a num- 
ber of years principal of the Xew Jersey State Normal school 
at Trenton. 

This ends the history of the descendants of Solomon, son of 
.\braham Hasbrouck. the patentee. 

Josi:i'ii. Sox OF Abr.miam tiii-: Patentee 

\\'e will now proceed to the history of Josei:)h. the eldest son 
of .Abraham the I'atentee. who was born in 1684. Joseph 
Hasbrouck. and his w ife. I'^llsje Schoonmaker. are buried in the 
graveyard in this \illage. but for a great number of years 
they have had few descendants permanently residing in the town 
of Xew Paltz. Xevertheless none of the Xew Paltz Hugue- 
nots have left a more honored line of descendants and none 
have taken greater interest in the history of the place. 

Joseph and his wife. Ellsje Schoonmaker. were married in 
\yiM). They located at (Inilford. on a tract of 2,CX30 acres, 



37^' 



iiisioK)- oh \/:ir r.iLT/. 




TOMISSTiiNH. (IK JIKKI'H HASHRdUfK IN T H K OI.ll C.KAVK YAKK IN THIS 

VU.LAr.E 



HISTORY OF XJiir P A LT Z Z77 

winch had been "granted by initcnt in 1685 to James (irahani 
and John Delavall. The original parchment is now in the 
possession of Joseph Ilasbrouck, Jr., who is the owner and 
occupant of the farm where his father, Joseph L., his grand- 
father, Col. Joe., and his great-grandfather, Gen. Joe., lived 
before him. Gen. Joe.'s father, Col. Abraham, lived in Kings- 
ton in Revolutionary times and his father is the first Joseph 
in the line. 

The parchment, on which the grant of the Guilford tract is 
written, is in a good state of preservation. About i860 the 
family residence was burned down and a numl)er of papers 
burned, but this patent being in the safe was preserved. 

The following is a copy, the quaint spelling of certain words 
being given as in the original : 

"Thomas Dongan, Lieutenant Governor and vice admiral! of 
New Yorke and its dependencyes under his majesty, James the 
Second, by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and 
Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, Supreme Lord and pro- 
prietor of the colony and province of New Yorke and depen- 
dencves in America. To all to wdiom this shall come sendeth 
greeting. 

Whereas Phillip A\'ells, esquire, stirveyor general, hath by 
virtue of my warrant, bearing date the i6th day of December, 
one thousand six hundred and eighty-five, surveyed and laid 
out for James Graham and John Delavall, a certain tract of 
land, being situate and lying upon both sides the Walls River, 
of the New Palls and known by the Indian name Nescatock 
and now by the name of Guilford, in the county of IHster 
beginning on the east side the river and att the south end of a 
small island, off the mouth of the River Chauwangung and 
stretching inti) the woods bv a line of marked trees, east, south- 



3/8 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

east, five degrees and thirty minutes, southerly fifty one chains 
and a halfe and then in length north by east six degrees and 
forty five minutes easterly one hundred and ninety chains and 
then in breadth to the River west, northwest, five degrees and 
thirty minutes northerly, by a line of marked trees, fifty one 
chains and a half to the jjauls River and so crossing the River, 
to a tree marked with three notches, and a cross on them, 
standing off the mouth of a small run and so continues by a 
line of marked trees, fifty one chains and a halfe over a small 
hill and then in length south southwest two degrees and thirty 
minutes westerly, one hundred and seventy six chains, to a tree, 
marked, near the River Chauwangung and from thence east, 
southeast to the said River and so by the River to the aforesaid 
small island, including the said island, containing in all wood- 
land and meadows two thousand acres as by the Rowenty of 
the survey Remaining on record in the secretary's office may 
more fully and att large appear : NOW KNOW YEE that I, 
the said Thomas Dongan, by virtue of the power and authority 
to me devised from his most sacred majesty, and in pursuance 
of the same have given, granted, ratified, released and con- 
furred, and by these presents, do give, grant, ratify, release 
and confirme unto the said James Graham and John DelavoU, 
all the aforesaid tract and Parcell of land and Island lying and 
being scituated within the limitts and bounds aforesaid, to- 
gether with all the woods, underwoods, timber, swamps, mead- 
ows, pastures, fields, islands, waters, lakes, ponds. Rivers. Rivu- 
lets. Runns. Creeks, Quarries. Mines. Mineralls. ffishing, hunt- 
ing, hawking, ttowling and all other Royalties. Proffits, Com- 
moditites, hereadaments to the said tract and parcell of land, 
island and prcmissess with their a])i)urtenances, belonging or 
in any wise aj)pertaining (silver and gold mines only excepted) 
to have atul to hold all the aforecited tract and parcell of land 



HISTORY OU X EW I' A LT Z 379 

Island and premises with all and cvcrythin};' api^urlcnances, 
unto the said James Ciraham and John Delavall, their heirs and 
assigns, to" the sole and proper use, beneffitt and behoof of them 
the said James Graham and John Delavall, their heirs and 
assig'ns, forever, without any lett, hindrance or molestation, 
to be had or Reserved upon (word illet^ible) or joynt tenancy 
or survivorship, an\- tiling- contained herein to the contrary in 
any wise, notwithstanding-, to be holden of his most sacred 
majesty, his heirs and successors in free and comon Soccage, 
according to the tenure of east Greenwich, in the county of 
Kent, within the Realms of England yielding, rendering and 
paying therefor yearly and every year, unto his said majesty, 
his heirs and successors or to such officer or officers as shall be 
empowered to receive the same on the five and twentieth Day 
of ]\Iarch, att the city of New Yorke six bushels of good, winter, 
merchantable wheat, as an acklowledgment or quit rent, in lieu 
of all services and demands whatsoever. 

In Testimony, whereof, I have caused these presents to be 
recorded in the secretary's office and scale of the province to 
be hereunto affixed, this eleventh day of September, Ann Dom 
one thousand six hundred and eighty six, and in the second 
year of his majesty's reign. 

THOMAS DONGAN. 

Recorded in the Secretary's office for the province of New 
York in Liber W. S. book of Pattents begun 1684, pages 
546, 547, 548. G. I. Sprague, Sec. 

May it please your honor, the attorney-general hath peruseil 
this patent and finds nothing contained therein prejudicial to 
his majesty's interest. Ja. Graham. 

Exam. August. 1686. 



38o HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

We do not know very much about the first Joseph Has- 
brouck, except that he was one of the Justices of the County 
of Ulster in 1722, and his name is mentioned in a record of 
that date as having proceeded with two other Justices and an 
Indian to locate definitely the southwest corner of the Paltz 
patent at Moggonck. 

The diary of Joseph's son, Col. Abraham Hasbrouck, says 
he was "a gentleman much respected by those with whom he 
W'as acquainted and he served in several public stations in 
Ulster county. He was very affable and agreeable in company, 
eloquent in speech, spoke French, Dutch, and very tolerable 
English." 

Joseph Hasbrouck is buried in the old graveyard in this vil- 
lage and the stone which marks his last resting place, bears 
the oldest date of any in the graveyard. It is of brown sand 
stone, such as was used at that period. At the top of the 
stone is an angel's head and wings. The inscription is as 
follows : "Here lyes the Body of Joseph Hasbrouck, Esq., 
aged 40 years, 3 months and 18 days, deceased, January 28, 
172^." The fraction .)4 marks tlie date in Old Style. By 
the side of this grave is another similar stone with the in- 
scription : "Here lies interred the Body of Ellsje Hasbrouck, 
widow of Joseph Hasbrouck, Esq., deceased ye ny day of July 
1764, aged 78 years, 8 months and 3 days." 

Joseph's widow, as will be noted by these inscriptions, out- 
lived her husband forty years. We may suppose the stones 
were put up by her sons after their mother's death. Quite 
certainly no gravestones of brown sandstone were used in the 
graveyard here at so early a period as 1723. 

At just what date Joseph Hasbrouck moved frt)ni his father's 
home in this village and located at Guilford we can not say. 
It wa-^ prribnMv ^hortlv after hi^ marriage in i7or). 



HISTORY 01' XliW IWLTZ 381 

In our previous sketches of the early settlers of New Pallz 
wc have noted various instances of a widow being left at a 
comparatively youthful age with a large family on her hands. 
We have noted the additional fact as appearing in the early 
history of New Paltz that, where there was a large family of 
sons the record of the mother was that of an exceedingly able 
woman. 

Joseph Hasbrouck's wife lost her husband when she was 
about thirty-seven years of age, and was left with ten children 
on her hands, while her oldest, Abraham, was only about seven- 
teen years of age. It requires little imagination to see that this 
woman, in the wilderness five miles from the little settlement 
at New Paltz, with no houses on the way except those of Louis 
Dur)ois, Jr., on the county house plains, and Solomon DuBois, 
where Mr. Blake now lives, must have had a dreary time, and 
had she not possessed a brave heart, would have succumbed 
to the hardships of the environment. But she did not give up 
the fight nor move back to New Paltz. She raised her family 
of six sons and four daughters. In her later years, when 
neighbors increased, she kept a store in the house. Nine of 
her children married. Her family scattered widely and rose 
to eminence. 

The sons of Joseph Hasbrouck and his wife, Ellsje Schoon- 
maker, were Col. Abraham, who married Catharine Bruyn and 
located in Kingston ; Isaac, who married Antje Low, widow 
of John Van Gasbeck, and located a short distance east of old 
Shawangunk church; Jacob, who married Mary Hornbcck 
and moved to Marbletown ; Benjamin, who married Elcdia 
Schoonmaker and located at what is now the Borden residence 
at Wallkill ; Cornelius, who did not marry ; Col. Jonathan, who 
married Catharine DuBois and located at Newburgh. There 
were also four daughters, all of wIkmu married. 



382 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

Col. Ar.UAiiA.M. S(».\ oi- JosKi'ii 

J'hc oldest son, Abraham, married Catharine 15ruyn, dauj^hter 
of Jacobus Bruyn. who hved a few miles south of Guilford, 
and in 1735, fourteen years after the death of his father, moved 
to Kingston and left the other children to help their mother to 
carry on the farm. We may consider that the boys who were 
left at home under care of their mother did good service in 
clearing uji the forest land, for in 1765. one year after her death, 
we find the farm assessed to Abraham, the oldest son (who had 
bought it ) at a higher rate than any other farm in the whole 
precinct of New Paltz. 

For thirty-one years Abraham carried on the mercantile busi- 
ness in Kingston. In 1776 his store was destroyed by fire. 
He then moved, and in his later years had his residence in the 
large stone building, well remembered by people of the present 
generation as Schryvcr's Hotel, on East Front street, destroyed 
by fire about 1876. He is usually called "Colonel." but was 
not engaged in active service in the Revolutionary army, being 
an old man when the war commenced. He was a lieutenant- 
colonel of militia, was for twenty years member of the Provin- 
cial Assembly and was a member of the State Senate in 1781. 

In 1775 he was elected colonel of the ist Northern Ulster 
County Regiment and the next year was elected commander. 
During a long term of years he kept a diary, which contained 
more autheiUic information probably than any other record 
of that time in the county. This diary is (|uite a large volume 
and is now in the possession of the family of his great-grand- 
daughter, Mrs. Geo. H. Sharpe. Col. Abraham Hasbrouck, 
though residing in Kingston, continued to take a great interest 
in the alTairs at New Paltz. and in the feud between the Has- 
broucks and the I'ltings. which formed so important a i)art 
of the historv of those times, he i)orc (juite a cons])icuous jiart. 



HISTORY Of A Ell' PALTZ 2>^7, 

The origin of the feud was, as nearly as we can ascertain, 
the attempt on the part of Noah Kiting and Nathaniel LeFevre 
to obtain from the Colonial government a patent for 3,000 acres 
of land lying on the south of the Paltz i)atent. This was 
strongly opposed by Col. Abraham Hasbrouck and others in 
behalf of the balance of the Paltz people, alleging that the 
original Paltz patent covered a part of this tract. To make the 
fight more bitter an action was commenced against Noah, who 
resided where the late Edmund Eltinge lived, and it was claimed 
that the land he occupied and which his father purchased of 
Solomon and Louis DuBois, Jr., in 1726, was also a part of the 
Paltz patent and that therefore his title to it was not valid. 
Finally the matter was settled without coming into court. In 
1755 Col. Abraham, together with Louis Bevier of Marble- 
town and Jacob Hasbrouck, obtained a grant of 2,000 acres of 
land south of the New Paltz patent and in the neighborhood of 
the present Clintondale depot. 

Col. Ahrahani 1 lasbrouck of Kingston left four sons, Joseph, 
Daniel, Jonathan and James. The oldest son, Joseph, when 
he became a man moved back to the old homestead at Guilford. 
Daniel located at Wallkill, Orange county, and left two sons. 
neither of whom married, and four daughters. 

Jonathan lived in Kingston and is well remembered as "Judge 
Jonathan," and was the father of Hon. A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, 
than whom L'lster county has had no more honored son. James 
occupied his father's house, subsequently the Schryver hotel 
property, at Kingston. 

We will now go back with Col. Abraham's son, Joseph, to 
the homestead at Guilford. Having been placed by his father 
on the farm he worked it on shares for several years. In 1773, 
when thirty years of age, he married Elizabeth I>evier. Joseph 



384 II ISTORY OP NEW PALTZ 

was a brigadier-general of militia and is usually spoken of as 
"General Jo." During the Revolutionary war his farm was a 
depot of supplies for the federal army stationed at New Wind- 
sor and other places and these supplies were forwarded as 
needed. The book with his account of these transactions is 
still in possession of the family at Guilford. During the Revo- 
lutionary war he was lieutenant-colonel in Col. Cantine's regi- 
ment. His title as general was probably for militia service 
after the war. He was a member of the Assembly in 1786 
and a member of the State Senate in 1793-96. He died in 1808. 

Gen. Jo. left one daughter and a large family of sons as 
follows: Abraham, Louis, Daniel, Joseph, Philip, James and 
Luther. 

The oldest son. Abraham, who was born in 1775. moved to 
Rondout when a }oung man, and for half a century carried on 
a general mercantile business, being known among his old 
neighbors in Southern Ulster as "Abraham Hasbrouck of the 
Strand." He was in the freighting business, as well as the 
mercantile business, accumulated a large amount of property, 
and was a member of Congress in 1813-15. His wife was 
Helena Jansen. Their children were Jansen, Helena, wife of 
Henry Sharpe and mother of Gen. George H. Sharpe; Eliza- 
beth, wife of Dr. Richard Elting; Catharine, wife of Judge 
G. W. Ludlum; Maria, wife of Robert Gosman. Jansen. the 
only son, was a very jjrominent citizen of Rondout and until 
shortly before his death was president of the Rondout bank. 

Besides Abraham "of the Strand," the other sons of "General 
Jo." of Guilford, as we have said, were Louis, David, Joseph, 
Philip. James and Lnlher. Louis located at Ogdensburgh, 
where his descendants still live. 

David became a doctor and settled in Utica. He left at 
Ir.i.i two ^..ns. William and fohn L., the latter the well-known 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 385 

New York merchant. Gen. Jo.'s sons Philip and Luther mar- 
ried, but left no children. Philip lived where his nephew, 
Philip B., now lives in Gardiner. The two remaining^ sons, 
James and Joseph, located in the vicinity, josepii retaining;- the 
old homestead at ( luiltord and being sometimes called "Colonel 
Jo." James lived west of the Guilford church. His surviving 
sons are Louis of Libertyville and Philip B. Col. Jo., who 
kept the old homestead, left a family of four sons, Abner, 
Oscar, Dr. Alfred, who settled in Poughkeepsie, and Joseph L., 
who kept the old homestead. 

About 1850 fire destroyed the old stone mansion, and some 
of the ancient papers, but a portion of the most valuable ones 
were in the safe unharmed. A brick house of mndrrn pattern 
took the place of the stone house. On the death of Joseph L. 
Hasbrouck the property came into the occu])ancy of his only 
surviving son, Mr. Joseph Hasbrouck, Jr. 

Louis Hasbrouck (son of Joseph, son of Abraham, son of 
Joseph, son of Abraham the Patentee), who settled at ( )gdens- 
burgh, was born .April 22, 1777, and was baptized May 11, 
1777, at Shawangunk by Rev. Regnier \'an Xiest. He was 
educated at Princeton and graduated in 1797. He studied law 
in the office of Josiah Ogden Hoft'nian in Xew A'ork city and 
was admitted to tlif har in 1801. Shortly afterwards he re- 
moved to Ogdensburgh, N. Y. He was the first County Clerk 
of St. Lawrence county. Postmaster of Ogdensburgh, Member 
of the Legislature and State Senator. He died .\ugust 20, 
1834. 

He married Catharine Banks, daughter of Justus lianks. 
They had several children, of whom one son. Louis, born in 
1814. and two daughters, Sarah Sophia and Loui.sa, married. 
One daughter. Jane, is still living. Louis, the second of the 
name at Ogdensburgh, was twice married. His hrst wife was 



386 HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 

Louise SeynuHir Allen and his second wife was Sarah Maria 
Hasbrouck, daughter of Levi Hasbrouck ot Xew Paltz. By 
the first marriage there were three children, two of whom, a 
son and daughter, are now living — the son. who is named Louis, 
being a prominent lawyer at Ogdensburg. By the second mar- 
riage there were three chiUlren. two of whom. Levi and Laura 
Maria, are still living. 

Isaac, Sox of Joseph and Grandson of Abraham the 
Patentee 

Isaac Hasbrouck. second son of Joseph and grandson of 
Abraham the P'atentee. was born March 12. 1712, and in 1766 
married Antje Low, widow of John \'an Gaasbeck, settled in 
Shawangunk about a mile south of Tuthill and built the house 
still standing, owned by Richard Hardenberg and his children 
for seventy years. His lands joined the Wallkill on the east 
for nearly a mile and extended west to where the Shawangunk 
church stands and probably extended a little farther to the 
Shawangunk kill. When the Shawangunk church was organ- 
ized in 1737 he gave the land where the building stands. 

Isaac Hasbrouck was Supervisor of the town of Shawan- 
gunk in 1 75 1 and 1752. 

Isaac and his wife had three children — Joseph I., Elsie and 
Jane. Elsie did not marry. Jane married John Crispell and 
they had two sons, Peter and DuBois ; both became physicians. 
DuBois settled and died in Kingston. Peter died in Hurley. 
A granddaughter of Joseph I., Mrs. A. M. Ronk, has in her 
possession an old family Bible with the following record : 

"Joseph I. Hasbrouck. born October 11, 1767, died March 
24th. 1842. Married Cornelia Schoonmaker of Pa-ca-na-sink, 
born February 18th. 1766. died July 14th. 1814." Their chil- 
dren were Sarah B., born August 28, 1788. married Daniel 



UJSTORy Oi- XEW J'ALTZ 387 

Tutliill ; Maria, born May 27,, 1790, married Thomas Ostran- 
der : Catharine, born August 17, 1792, married Samuel John- 
son; Dr. Stephen, born April 24, 1794, married Elsie Schenck 
of l-'ishkill : Levi, born December 21, 1795, married Manj 
Decker: jane, born January 2j, 1798, married Cornelius De- 
Witt of Marbletown; Geo., born January 26, 1800, married 
Maria Johnson; Joseph Osterhoudt, born December 23, 1801, 
married Eliza Ray; Abel, born December 16, 1803, married 
Rutli Winfield ; Augustus, l)orn September 20, 1809, married 
Jane V. W. Eltinge, daughter of Rev. Wilhelmus. 

Joseph L located and built on a portion of his father's lands 
about half a mile south of the old homestead and some distance 
by lane from the main road to the banks of the Wallkill. This 
has sometimes been mistaken for the old homestead. 

Joseph I., of Shawangunk. was Supervisor in 1797-9, 1813-4 
and in 1817. 

J.vcoB A., Son of Joseph of Guilford 

Jacob A. Hasbrouck, son of Joseph of Guilford and grand- 
son of Abraham the Patentee, was born in 171 7. He married, 
in 1746, Maria Hornbeck and located at Kyserike in the town 
of Marbletown. At about the same date Isaac Hasbrouck, son 
of Jacob, son of Jean the Patentee, moved from what is now 
the Memorial House in this village and likewise settled in the 
town of Marbletown. Both of these Hasbrouck families have 
ever since had representatives in the town of Marbletown and 
elsewhere, but there is a great disparity in the number of de- 
scendants bearing the Hasbrouck name for the reason that while 
Isaac had si.x sons and a goodly number of grandsons, Jacob 
had but one son. and boys have since been few in numbers in 
his line of the Hasbrouck family. 

Capt. Jacob L. Snyder, of High I'alls. whose wife is a daugh- 



388 HISTORY OP X EW PALTZ 

ter of Calvin Ilashrouck and great-granddaughter of Jacob A., 
has in his possession a number of valuable old papers, which 
have come down in this line of Hasbroucks and which make 
clear the family history. The oldest of these papers arc two 
deeds for land at Kyserike from Ellsje Hasbrouck. of Guilford, 
widow of Joseph, to her son, Jacob A. Hasbrouck. In one of 
iIk- deeds, dated in 1747, consideration is love and affection and 
£300. In the deed for the other tract at Kyserike the consid- 
eration mentioned is love and affectiiMi and £540. The latter 
deed is dated in 1754. 

The children of Jacob A. Hasbrouck and his wife. Mary 
Hornbeck, were Anitje, Elsie, Mary. Joseph and Rachel. In 
his will, also in possession of Capt. Jacob L. Snyder. Jacob A. 
gives to his son Joseph all his land in the towns of Marbletown 
and Rochester, but retjuires him to pay £400 to his sisters. 
Anitje, Elsie and .Mary. 

Joseph Hasbrouck, son of Jacob, occupied his father's home- 
stead, known in modern times as the Lodewyck Hasbrouck place. 

In the war of the Revolution Joseph's name appears as en- 
sign in the company of wliicli John Hasbrouck. of Marbk-tuwu 
who had married Joseph's sister, was captain. Subsequently 
he received from (ien. (ieo. Clinton a commission as lieutenant 
in the Levies and his name ajipears as lieutenant in the I'ourth 
Orange County Regiment. Col. llalhorn. of which his cousin. 
Joseph Hasbrouck of (luilford. was lieutenant-colonel. IIi> 
commission is dated July 1. 17S0. .\t a later date, after the 
close of the war. in 17S7. he receixed a commission as captain. 
The will of Joseph Hasbrouck. which was probated May ^». 
1802. together with the other valuable ])apers mentioned are 
now in the jx^ssession of Capt. Jacob L. .'^nyder. having come 
to him from his father-in-law. Calvin Hasl)rouck. who was 
the son of Joseph. Calvin resided at High Falls and was for 
many years superintendent on the Delaware & Hudson canal. 



iiisroRy Of XEir paltz 389 

Benjamin, Son of Joseimi and Grandson of Auraiiam the 

Patentee 

]'>enianiiii. born in i/K^. son of Joseph and grandson of 
Aliraham the Patentee, located at what is now Wallkill and 
bnilt tlie stone liouse, still standin^^. and which forms a part of 
the present Mrs. John G. Borden residence. Benjamin mar- 
ried Elidia Schoonniaker and had three sons, Benjamin. Cor- 
nelius and Josei)h. the second named of whom kept the home- 
stead, and the son Joseph took the south part of the farm. 
Cornelius" farm was left to his son. Benjamin C, and Joseph's 
fami went to his son Thomas. The descendants of the three 
sons of Benjamin Hasbrouck. the first of the name at Wallkill, 
are thus stated h\ Mr. A. M. I\i>nk: 

Benjamin married Elizabeth Dickerson, daug^hter of W'^illiam. 
Their children were Eliza, who married Stephen Ronk : Lydia 
did not marry : Isaac married Delia Xewman : Jacob married 
Charlotte Thorn: Elsie married Jabez Ells; Henry H. mar- 
ried Ruth Constable : Catharine married William Johnson ; 
Jane. Joseph, !Mary did not marry. 

Cornelius married Jane Kelso. Their children were Wm. C, 
married Mary E. Roe: P.enj. C. married Louise Lyon; Mar- 
sj^aret. married Ca])tain \\\\ lV'rr\-. 

Joseph married Rebecca Kelso, a sister of Cornelius' wife. 
Their children were Thomas, did not marry; John, moved to 
Michit^an. married Rachel Ann Tra]iha,u:en : Maria Jane, mar- 
ried Nathaniel Roos ; Catharine Ann married Halsey Lyon ; 
Rebecca, married Linus Esterly : .Sarah, married Ji>hn Titus. 

Wm. C. Hasbrouck. son of Cornelius, son of Benjamin, the 
first at Wallkill. was born Auj^ust 27^, i8cx); married Mary E.. 
daup^hter of William Roe. June 2^, 1831 ; died November, 
1870; had three sons, viz.: Wm. H.. Henry C. and l\<>o. and 



390 HISTORY Of X IHr PALTZ 

three daug'hters : Maria H., Emily A. and Blandiiia. He grad- 
uated al I'liion College at the same time Win. H. Seward was 
an undergraduate, and soon after removed to Franklin, Tenn., 
where he became principal of the academy founded by Bishop 
Otey. Returning to the North, he became principal of the 
Farmers' Hall Academy, at Goshen, in 1822, and commenced 
there the study of law with Mr. W'isner. He completed hi.s 
legal studies with Wm. Ross, in Newburgh ; was admitted to 
the bar in 1826. and rose rapidly to rank in his profession. 
He was elected to the Assembly of 1847 and was chosen 
Speaker of that body ; he was a man of high bearing, spotless 
character, and a chivalric sense of honor and duty. His sec- 
ond son, Henry C, graduated at the West Point Military 
Academy. May, 1861 ; served as lieutenant under Captain (irif- 
fin, 5th Artillery. U. S. A., in first Bull Run. also at Miner's 
Hill and Newport News; prouKJted ca]>tain 41)1 Artillery, antl 
in service in the Modoc campaign. 

Henry C. was for some time in command at Fortress Mon- 
roe, holding a commission as lieut. -colonel in the regular army. 
and in the war with Si)ain was appointed brigadier-general. . 

Coi.. Jonathan, Son of Joskpii .\ni) (jk.\ni)son of Auk aha. \i 

TllF r.\Ti:NTFF 

jdiiathan. the youngest s<~>n <if Joseph and grandsim of .Xbra- 
hani tJK- ratentee. was born in (iuiliord .\pril u. ijjj. and 
died July 31. 1780. Jonathan married Ma\. 1751. Tryntje. 
daughter of Cornelius DuT.ois ^^i Poughwoughtenonk. Jonathan 
located al Wwburgh. ])urchasing. in 1747. the property on 
which lie l)uilt. in 1730. part of the house known as Washing- 
ton's 1 li'ad(|uartt.'rs. Sul)>r(|uent]y Ik- built an adilition to this 
house and here he resided until his death. He was the first 
Supervisor of the precinct in 17^>3. He held at ditTcrftit times 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 391 

commissions as ensign, captain and colonel, liis commission to 
the latter office being- issued October 25. 1773. His regiment 
saw much active service in the Revolutionary war. hut. owing 
to the ill health of its colonel, was nuich of the time commanded 
by Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh. ( )n account of 
continued ill health Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck resigned in 1777. 
The diary of his brother, Col. Abraham of Kingston, gives the 
following account of Col. Jonathan : 

"He was a loving husband to his w'ife, a tejider and loving 
father to his children, a loving brother to his brothers and sis- 
ters, an obedient and dutiful child to his parents, a kind 
master to his servants, a good neighbor, a hospitable man, a 
good, industrious, sober man, and a very good liver, and a very 
good common wealth's-man (whig). He was a pious worthy 
man, paid a good deal of reverence in hearing and reading the 
word of God. He was good natured, not soon ruffled or put 
in a passion, but with a great deal of forbearance. He had 
very good sense, and strong natural parts and understanding — 
especially in divinity, and very knowing in common aflfairs of 
life. He was a man of stature above six feet and four inches, 
well shaped and proportioned of body, good features, full visage 
of face, but of brown complexion, dark blue eyes, black hair, 
with a single curl, strong of body, arms, legs : was inclined to 
be corpulent and fat in his younger days, but meeting so many 
sicknesses and disorders he was not so fat the last thirty years 
of his life as he was in his youth. He had a great many good 
qualities that I don't write down here. He died on Monday 
morning and was buried on Tuesday in the burying place on 
his own land, between his house and the North River, lying 
along side two of his sons (Abraham and Joseph^. wh(^ lay 
buried in the same ground." 

The other children of lonathan were Cornelius. Isaac, Jona- 



39-' HI STORY OF .V/:/r P A LT Z 

than. Mary and Raclicl. The son. Cornelius, born in 1755, 
espoused the cause of the kin^ and removed to Canada where 
he founded a creditable family. The son Isaac, born in 1761, 
died in 1806. married Hannah Birdsall and continued to reside 
at Headquarters. The dauj:jhter Mary, born in 1763. married 
Capt. Israel ."^niitli and durinsj^ the Revolutionary war resided 
with her father's family at Headquarters, at the time that Gen. 
and Mrs. Washington were there. A cloak presented by Lady 
Washington to little Mary Smith is still treasured up as an 
heirl(j(»m. The son Jonathan did not marry. The daughter 
Rachel married her cousin Daniel, son of Col. Abraham of 
Kingston, and located at ^lontgomery. Orange county. 

Col. Jonathan's son Isaac, who occupied the Headquarters 
after his father's death, left a family of three sons and three 
daughters as follows : Jonathan, Israel, Eli, Sarah, Rachel, 
Mary, all of whom were born at Headquarters. Sarah, who 
married Walter Case, was the only daughter who married. 
Jonathan, the oldest son of Isaac and grandson of Col. Jonathan, 
married Phebe Field and left a large family of sons and daugh- 
ters, all of whom were born at Headquarters. 

Eli, son of Isaac and grandson of Col. Jonathan, married 
Harriet Belknap and left a large family of children, six of whom 
married and left children. Eli's second son, Charles H., de- 
ceased, was for many years cashier of the Quassaick Bank. 

Rachel, daughter of Col. Jonathan, married her cousin Daniel, 
son of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston, and located at 
Montgomery, ( )range county. They left a family of two sons, 
Asa and Samuel, neither of whom married, and four daughters 
who married as follows: Margaret, married Severyn Bruyn 
of P.ru\ iiswick : Betsey, married Edward Wait of Montgomery ; 
Clara, married Nicholas Evertson of Xcwburgh. and Elsie, 
married Dr. Hornbeck. 



HISTORY Of Xliir PALTZ 393 

RACiiiiL lL\si!K()i-t Ks Ride from XiiwuuRGii to Guilford 

One of the most romantic stories that we hear of the Revo- 
lutionary times is tlius related to us by ^Irs. Peter Miller of 
Montg^omery. ( )range county (who is a daughter of Edward 
Wait ) , and was told to her when a child by her grandmother, 
who is the heroine of the tale : 

The r.ritish were ap])roaching Xewburgh ; we presume it 
was \ aughn's expedition to relieve Burgoyne. Whatever else 
the red coats might spare if they stopped at Xewburgh it was 
a plain case that the family plate of so noted a rebel as Col. 
Jonathan Ilasbrouck would not be left at its owner's home. 
So Rachel, who was eighteen years old, mounted a mare called 
Firefly and with the family plate in the saddle bags the brave 
girl started alone for the old home of her grandfather, Joseph, 
at Guilford. Part of the way the route was only to be found 
by the marks blazed on the trees. At the foot of a mountain 
on the route she was stopped by tories. But the leader of the 
band declared with an oath that she was too pretty to be mo- 
lested. \\'hile the members of the party were debating the 
question Rachel struck Firefly with the whip and flew on. The 
tories fired at her. but she was not hit by the bullets and arrived 
safe at the ancestral home at Guilford. 

Until quite recently Mrs. Miller owned the saddle in which 
her grandmother made this famous ride. Other Revolutionary 
reminiscences related to Mrs. Miller by her grandmother are 
that when the British sailed past Xewburgh on the way to help 
Burgoyne the family of her father. Col. Jonathan, took refuge 
in the cellar, expecting that the British ships would cannonade 
the house. Tliey were not (lisa])])iiinted. but the cannon were 
aimed too low and the balls struck l)elow the house, in the 
ground. When Washington had his headquarters at this house 



394 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

he and Mrs. Washington boarded with Col. Jonathan's family. 
Part of the time while Washint^ton was at Newburgh the 
Marquis de La Fayette and his wife were their guests. La 
Fayette was a very large, heavy man — so large that his wife 
was obliged to use five needles in knitting his stockings, and 
when he went out his valet would take an extra horse along 
for his use. When Washington said good bye to the head- 
quarters Lady Washington presented Rachel Hasbrouck with 
a chair, which is now owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Eager of Great 
Bend. Pa. Another daughter of Col. Jonathan was likewise 
presented with a chair by Lady Washington. 

Benjamin', Sox of Abr.\h.\m, the Patentee 

Benjamin, the youngest soji of Abraham the Patentee, Iwrn 
in 1696, located in Dutchess county about 1720. His wife was 
Janitje De Long, whom he married February 13, 1737. In 
1755 Benjamin built a stone house, which is still standing near 
Hopewell, in which he resided imtil his death, in 1763. Ben- 
jamin had a family of four sons and two daughters, as follows : 
Daniel, Benjamin, Jacob, Mary, Heiltje and Francis. Benja- 
min did not marry. Daniel married \'an \^lecken and 

had four sons. Tunis, Benjamin. I<^hn and Daniel: also two 
daughters. Catharine and Rachel. Timis lived in the town of 
Fishkill, where he left two sons. John married Mary Backus 
and moved to Onondaga county. Benjamin married Hannah 
Green and left a large family of children, eleven in all. Daniel 
did not marr\ . 

Francis, son of Benjamin 1 tlio hr.-^t in Dutchess county) mar- 
ried Elizabeth Swartwoul and they had four children, Benja- 
min, Abraham, James and ( iilbert. All died young, except the 
oldest son, Benjamin. He was a private in Capt. Abraham 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 395 

Brinkcrhoff's company, in Col. John Cantine's Ulster County 
Regiment. During his lifetime he occupied the old stone house 
of his grandfather, Benjamin. Ho married Rachel Storm. 
Their children were Francis, Sarah, Catharine, Elizaheth, Caro- 
line and Isaac. 

This ends the history of the family of Abraham Hasbrouck, 
the New Paltz Patentee. 



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THE JEAN HASBROL'CK HOUSE, NOW THE MEMliKIAI. HOISE 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 397 

CHAPTER XXXII 

The Family of Jean HASiiRoucK. the Patentee 

Directly across the street from the site of the first stone 
church stands the house of Jean Hasbrouck. the Patentee, which 
was purchased by the N^ew Pahz Huguenot Memorial Society 
in 1899, to preserve the memory of the early settlers and as a 
store-house of relics and ancient documents. 

This is the largest and finest of all the old houses, except the 
DuBois house, and that has lost a great part of its attraction 
from having been modernized many years ago. 

The house of which we speak bears the letters 1. II.. sur- 
mounted by a sort of crown, cut in a stone just above and to 
the left of the door. In the mortar, near one of the front win- 
dows, is the date 1712. The I in the olden time was the same 
as J, and the letters above mentioned are the initials of the 
builder. The date 171 2 is found in two places on the building, 
and doubtless marks the date of its erection — thirty-five years 
after the date of the patent and seven years after the erection 
of the Dubois house, which still bears the figures 1705 in iron 
letters. The only other stone house in this village ever bearing 
a date of which we are aware is the original Bevier house, 
afterward the Elting store, which stands with its gable end 
to the street, opposite the DuBois house, and which lM:>re (^n 
its chimney until about 1890 the date of 1735. 

The first houses were doubtless all of logs. As the settlers 
found time they were replaced by the stone edifices still stand- 
ing. Probablv every one in the settlement assisted in the build- 
ing. The house we are describing is the onlv one in tlu' \illage 



398 HJSTORV Of XEir PALTZ 

witli an exceedingly tall and steep roof, nor do we recollect any 
other old stone house in all the country round with such a roof. 

Entering at the front door we find ourselves in the broad 
hall, extending through the center of the building. To the 
right and left are large rooms, with high ceilings, the great 
beams being about nine feet from the floor. 

The room to the right was used in Revolutionar\ times, and 
probably for half a century before, as a store where the few 
goods that were not produced in the place were sold to the set- 
tlers. In one side of the chimney is a closet with a door fitting 
so closely as to be almost umioticed exce])t by careful inspection. 
This, it is said, was the money drawer. High up on the gar- 
ret is a railing which was formerly in this room and was the 
bar, behind which stood the merchant of the olden time. This 
railing was not taken up on the garret until about 1850. Levi 
Hasbrouck. during his lifetime would not allow any important 
changes to be made in the appearance of the old homestead, 
and this is the reason why this bar railing was kept in this 
room so long after it was unused for mercantile purposes. 

The large room to the left, as we enter, was without doubt 
the living room of the family. In the rear is the kitchen. 

The kitchen chimney is about ten feet wide at the base, the 
mortar apparently of lime and clay — tough and firm. Stepping 
into the fireplace from the kitchen, the old trammels and pot 
hooks are still to be seen. These were in common use in the 
old stone houses before the day of cook stoves. These chim- 
neys, with their wide fireplaces, were meant to consume the 
great logs without the trouble of cutting them up. The mantle- 
piece is high up so as to be out of the way of the flames. The 
brick, (if course, must have been hauled from Kingston and 
doubtless brought from Holland, as there were, we presume, 
no brickvard'- in this countrv at that earlv date. But what an 



HISTORY Of XEir FALTZ 399 

immense quantity of brick went into one of these old 
chimneys ! 

Everythinf^ about the house is evidently hand-made. The 
nails in the doors, the bolts and hinges are made by the home 
blacksmith, and their appearance shows that they were ham- 
mered out. The wood work was made before the day of saw- 
mills and shows the hand planing of the home carpenter. 

The work is all substantial. There was evidently no slight- 
ing of the work by mechanics in those days. The old settlers 
meant to stay, and they meant that their houses should be for 
their descendants as well as themselves. 

Descending to the cellar we find a higher ceiling than in the 
other old houses. There is one dark room, without a window, 
in the cellar, but we do not find the sub-cellar which two or 
three of the other stone houses in the village had and which we 
are informed was to store liquor in or to put things in for 
safe keeping, to have them out of the way of the slaves. 
Doubtless this dark room and the sub-cellar in other old build- 
ings were for the same purpose. Part of the cellar is paved 
with stone, part of it with brick, an evidence of comfort w^e 
have not seen in other old houses. 

Ascending to the upper portion of the building, we find the 
airy loft. Here in olden times the grain was stored in hogs- 
heads. Even in the memory of the people now living, this 
custom was continued in this building. The light streamed in 
through the windows with their little panes of glass. This 
was not the only one of the old houses in which the grain was 
stored in the loft. Doubtless that custom was universal in the 
early settlement. 

From cellar to garret the house is full of quaint reminders 
of the olden time — over two centuries ago. when the ct^mtry 
around was a wilderness anil Xew Paltz a little hamlet in its 



400 HISTORY Of XEW PALTZ 

midst, where a handful of I'rench Huguenots, fleeing from per- 
secution, had found a home and a refuge, where they might 
worship God in peace and rear their families in comfort. 

Jean Hashrouck, the Patentee, left three daughters, Mary, 
who married Isaac DuBois; Hester, who married Peter Gu- 
maer, and Elizabeth, who married Louis lievier of Marbletown. 
He also had three sons, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The first 
went to England and never returned. Isaac died before his 
father. His name appears in the list of members of Capt. 
Wessell Tenbrouck's company that marched to the invasion of 
Canada in 1711. He probably lost his life in this campaign. 
Jacob married Hester Bevier and kept the old homestead. 
Jacob left three sons, Jacob, Isaac and Benjamin. Jacob, who 
wrote his name Jacob, Jr., married Jane DuP.ois, daughter of 
Cornelius 4^uIiois. Sr.. and sister of Cornelius DuBois, Jr., of 
Poughwoughtenonk. He continued to reside in the homestead. 
Isaac married Maria Bruyn. P.enjamin was killed by a falling 
tree in 1747. Isaac is the ancestor of the Stone Ridge Has- 
broucks. 

Jacob, Jr., of New I'altz. who lived in the old homestead, 
was Supervisor of the town in i7'>^-5 and again in 1771-6. 
From a tax list of the town, dated i7')5. we find that Jacob 
Hashrouck, Jr., Josiah Elting and Cornelius DuBois of Pough- 
woughtenonk, were the three wealthiest men in the town and 
each possessed of about an equal amount of property. 

Jacob, Jr., was captain of the Second Xew Paltz Company, 
Third Regiment of Clster County Militia, in Revolutionary 
times, his commission being issued ( )ctober 25, 1775. He was 
promoted subsequently to the ]>osition of major in the same 
regiment, February 21. 1778. We have no account of any bat- 
tles in which he was engaged, but there is good evidence that 
he was with thf ;irni\ wlun Kingston was burned. 



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Jacob, Jr., left two sons, Josiah and Jacob J., Jr. ; also one 
daughter, Hester, who married Dr. George Wirtz, the ancestor 
of the Wnrts family at Xew Paltz. On the' tombstone in the 
old graveyard marking the spot of her interment is the in- 
scription, "daughter of Major Jacob Hasbrouck." 

In his old age, Jacob, Jr., built and perhaps moved to the 
old stone house in the north bounds of the present corporation, 
where his great-grandson, Abm. ]M. Hasbrouck, now lives. 
The son Josiah kept the old homestead. He carried on the 
mercantile business in this ancient house after the Revolution 
and accumulated a very large amount of property. He was a 
Member of Congress in the 8th session in 1803-5, was Member 
of Assembly in 1796, 1802 and 1806, and Supervisor of the 
town in 1784-6, 1793-4 and from 1799 to 1805. Josiah was 
commissioned as second lieutenant in the Second Company, 
Third Regiment of Ulster County ^lilitia in 1780. He was 
usuall}- called Colonel. Perhaps that rank may have been be- 
-towed during the war of 1812. We know nothing of his 
military record. 

In his old age Josiah moved from the old family residence 
in this village to the Plattekill. His wife was Sarah Decker. 
They had three daughters. Elizabeth. Jane and Maria, and one 
son. Le\i, who occupied the Plattekill residence during his 
lifetime, as did his only son, Josiah, who died about 1885. 

Col. Josiah's daughters married as follows : Elizabeth was 
Josiah DuBois' first wife. Jane married Joseph Hasbrouck of 
Guilford and Maria married Christopher Reese of Newburgh. 

We have said that Col. Josiah had one brother. Jacob J.. Jr. 
After his father's death he continued to occupy the house where 
Abm. M. now resides until in midille age when he gave up this 
house to his son, Maurice, and moved to Bontecoe and ])uilt 
the brick house which his grandson. Luther, now owns. He 

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402 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

was twice married. His first wife, Marj^^aret Hardenbergh, 
died young-, leaving one son, Louis, who went to Sullivan 
county when a young man and was never seen again. The 
second wife, Anna DuBois, left a large family of sons and 
daughters, as follows : Maurice. Jacob J., DuBois, Huram, 
Asenath, Albina. 

Coming back now to the village and to the ancient house 
which is now the Memorial House, we note that after Col. 
Josiah's removal to the Plattekill, near Jenkintown. the old 
homestead was occupied for a time by his son-in-law. Josiah 
DuBois, who had previously carried on the mercantile busi- 
ness in partnershi]) with him, but discontinued it after a time, 
and about 1820 built the brick house now owned by \Vm. H. D. 
Blake. After that date the old stone house, until its purchase 
by the Huguenot ^Memorial Society in 1899, was occupied by 
tenants. 

Col. Josiah Hasbrouck was quite certainly the richest man in 
New Paltz, perhaps the richest man in the county. His father 
before him was a rich man for those days. Yet it must be 
noticed that although this old house was for successive gene- 
rations the residence of wealthy people it was a very plain 
edifice. 

The people of those old days did not put all their money into 
houses. They lived, we dare say, in comfort, but had not as 
yet learned to be discontented with the plain, old stone houses 
of their ancestors. 

Tin-, Stone Ridge Hasbroucks 

Isaac Hasbrouck, son of Jacob, son of Jean the Patentee, 
was born in 1722. He married, in 1745, Mary, daughter ot 
Jacobus Bruyn of Shawangunk. They moved to the town of 
Marbletown and lived in the house in which their son. Scvervn. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 403 

afterwards resided, which is still standing, about a mile east of 
Stone Ridge and now owned by James Pine. 

Isaac Hasbrouck and his wife, Mary Bruyn, left a large 
family of children, as follows : Jacob I., John, Jacobus Bruyn, 
Severyn, Maria, Esther, Catharine. Benjamin and Louis. 

The names of four of these sons appear as soldiers in the 
Revolutionary war : John, as captain. Jacobus Bruyn as lieu- 
tenant, Severyn and Louis as privates. The name of Jacob L 
appears among the signers of the Articles of Association. 

Jacob L, the oldest son, who was born in 1746, married Sarah, 
daughter of Cornelius DuBois of Poughwoughtenonk, in the 
town of New Paltz. They located at the place, still known 
as the Colabargh, about a mile north of Stone Ridge. The 
property remained in the family for several generations, pass- 
ing from Jacob L to his son Josiah, and then to Josiah's son 
DuBois, and then to his son Dr. Josiah Hasbrouck, who w^as an 
only son, as was his father DuBois. On removing to Port 
Ewen he sold the farm to Lucas E. Schoonmaker. 

Jacob L had another son, Cornelius D., who married Hannah 
\"an \\'agenen. studied medicine and became a doctor. In the 
division of the estate of his maternal grandfather, Cornelius 
DuBois, Senior, of Poughwoughtenonk, he received the old 
stone house and about 120 acres of land. Dr. Hasbrouck 
moved to this tract about 1820, tore down the stone house, 
which had been built about 100 years before by Solomon Du- 
Bois, and built the frame house still standing and now occupied 
as a residence by the present owner of the farm. LeFevre Du- 
Bois. Dr. Hasbrouck resided on this place and practiced medi- 
cine about twenty-five years. He left one son, Hiram, who 
went to Michigan, and one daughter, Eliza, who married Peter 
Barnhart and lived on the place until in old age. 

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404 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

were:' Isaac, born in i7<-'«;; Margaret, born in 1773 (married 
Dr. W'ni. Peters) ; Wilhelmus. born in 1775 (was the owner 
of Kingston Point): Jacobus, born in 1777; Cornelius, born 
in 1778; Jacob I., Jr., born June 7, 1780; Louis I., born 1785; 
Abraham, born in 1787; Maria, born in 1789. 

C)£ this numerous family we have additional account of the 
following : Louis L married Margaret \'an \'leck. Maria 
married Dr. Matthew Dewitt of Stone Ridge and left no chil- 
dren. Jacob L. Jr., married. November 18, 1809, Catharine 
Knickerbocker. They had a large family of children, as fol- 
lows : Cyrus (killed in the civil war). Rufus, Sarah DuBois, 
Wm. Peters, Matthew Dewitt, Annie Ingraham, Maria Dewitt, 
Margaret Peters, Josiah Lewis. Anna Chittenden. The daugh- 
ter, Margaret Peters, married James C. Cornish. Rev. Marion 
Cornish of Kingston is their son. 

Benjamin, son of Isaac, wrote his name Benjamin I. He 
was born in 1764 and located at Kyserike, his old stone house, 
which is still standing, being on what is now the Matthew Steen 
place. Benjamin was twice married. His first wife was 
Catrina Smedes. After her death he married Rachel, daugh- 
ter of David Hasbrouck, whose home was what is now the 
Louis H. Deyo place, near Butterville. By the second wife 
there were four daughters, one of whom married Stephen Stil- 
well. Benjamin I. Hasbrouck died in 1843. aged eighty years. 
The farm j^assed into the possession of his son. Alexander, 
usually called Bony, who was a child by the first wife. 

John, son of Isaac, the first Hasbrouck at Stone Ridge, mar- 
ried Mary, daughter of Jacob A. Hasbrouck of Kyserike, who 
was the son of Joseph Hasbrouck of Guilford. John located 
about one mile south of Stone Ridge at what was called Rest 
place and here he built a stone house. In the Revolutionary 
war he served as captain in the Third Lister County Militia, 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 405 

of which John Cantine was colonel. The name of John Has- 
brouck, Jr., perhaps the same person, appears as a private in 
the Third Regiment of the Line, commanded by Col. Jas. 
Clinton. From one of the family, ^Mrs. James Oliver Has- 
brouck, residing in extreme old age at Washington, D. C, 
comes the following account of the services of Capt. John Has- 
brouck and his family in the Revolutionary war : 

Capt. John inherited a homestead from his father, which was 
located in the county of Ulster, town of Marbletown. On it 
he built a stone house. \\'hen the war broke out he went him- 
self and gave everything except his homestead for freedom's 
cause. On this homestead or farm he left his wife and four 
small children ; and she, taking up the burden of both man and 
wife, worked the land, which was in a splendid state of culti- 
vation. Finally the Indians and Tories, who were all around 
them, became so troublesome and dangerous that it was neces- 
sary to have a fort for the safety of the families. So Capt. 
John's wife offered her house, which was turned into a fort. 
It had to be guarded day and night by the soldiers — even men 
who worked in the fields had to have a guard with them or 
they would be shot while at work. At this fort the people 
were cared for and given a place where they could sleep in 
safety, and besides the table was always on the floor for those 
that were hungry. The homestead was handed down from 
generation to generation until it came to Gross Hasbrouck, 
grandson of Capt. John. Capt. John Hasbrouck's descendants 
likewise have an account of his presence at the capture of Bur- 
goyne's army, also in Sullivan's expedition against the Indians. 

Severyn, son of Isaac Hasbrouck, the first of the name at 
Stone Ridge, was born in 1756. He lived about a mile east of 
Stone Ridge on what is now the James Pine place. He was 
twice married. Bv his first wife, Maria Depuy, he had one 



406 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

son. Isaac S.. born in 1786. By his second wife. Maria Conk- 
lin, he had one son, Henry C, and one daughter, Maria. Isaac 
S. studied for a doctor and practiced medicine for a time, and 
afterwards carried on the mercantile business at Stone Ridge. 
His wife was Matilda Barnes. Their children were Severyn, 
Edgar, Charlotte and Matthew. The two first named sons 
continued their father's business as merchants at Stone Ridge. 
Henry C. Hasbrouck lived on a farm about a mile east of Stone 
Ridge. His wife was Xancy Barnes. Their children were 
Lorenzo, who died when a young man, and Elmira, who mar- 
ried Abm, y. X. Elting of Xew Paltz. 

Jacobus Bruyn, son of Isaac Hasbrouck, the first of the name 
at Stone Ridge, was born in 1753, married Ann Abeel. They 
resided at High Falls. 

We have no further information concerning the family of 
Jacobus and none concerning that of Louis, the youngest son 
of Isaac, except that he was born in 1767, married Catharine 
Decker and lived at Stone Ridge. 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 407 



CHAPTER XXXIII 

The LeFexre Family in America 

Among the Huguenots who settled in America at an early 
date we have accounts of six different families of LeFevres, 
namely at New York, in New Paltz, in New Jersey, in Penn- 
sylvania and at New Rochelle. We have no certain evidence 
that these families were related, although it is quite probable 
that Isaac LeFevre, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania tribe, was 
the nephew of Andre and Simon LeFevre, of New Paltz, and 
quite possibly all these Huguenot families bearing the name of 
LeFevre were nearly related. 

For our account of the LeFevre family outside of Ulster 
county we are mainly indebted to the researches of Mrs. C. A. 
Weber Lindsay, of Pittsburg, Penn. 

The first LeFevre in America of whom we have any record 
was Peter LeFevre, who was in New Amsterdam in 1653. 
His name appears on the records at subsequent dates during 
the next few years in New York and Brooklyn as an owner 
of real estate. It is thought that he or his widow moved to 
New Jersey. Hippolytus LeFevre settled at Salem in western 
New Jersey and was one of John Fenwdck's council in 1676. 
He became a large landholder and his descendants are believed 
to have been engaged in navigation, as nearly half a century 
afterward vessels bearing the name of members of the LeFevre 
family were running from this part of New Jersey to the New 
Fngland coast. In 1683 another LeFevre, Isaac by name, 
crossed the ocean and settled in New Jersey. His son. Myn- 
dert. in 1731, advertised his father's farm for sale, between 



4o8 HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

Pcrili Ainhiiy an<l Xcw lirunswick. These Xew Jersey Le- 
Fevres have moved to other states or become extinct in the 
male Hne, as the name has been lost a long time in that coimtry. 

Isaac, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania LeFevres. has a 
numerous line of descendants and the family history has been 
carefully traced. A brief statement is as follows : Isaac was 
born in France in 1669. When he was a youth of fourteen 
his parents, brothers and sisters were massacred on account of 
their religion. He escaped and fled to the Palatinate, carrying 
with him the family Bible, which is still in existence and is now 
the property of Samuel T. LeFevre of Iowa City, Iowa. It 
is about 300 years old, was printed at Geneva and contains the 
name of Isaac's brothers and sisters, but not of his parents. 
Isaac fled from France to the Palatinate in company with the 
family of Madam Ferree and married the daughter, Catharine 
Ferree. One son, Abraham, was born to them in the Pala- 
tinate. In 1708 they emigrated to America and in 171 1 were 
in Kingston, when their second son, Philip, was baptised Ajiril 
I, 171 1, Isaac DuBois and Rachel DuBois. both of Xew Paltz, 
being sponsors. In 171 2 Isaac went with his wife and two 
sons to Lancaster county (then Chester county). Pa., nine 
miles from the present town of Lancaster, where he made pur- 
chases of land amounting to 2.200 acres, and here in 1713 their 
son Daniel was born, being the first white child l)<>rn in the 
Pequea \'alley. At about the same date Abm. DuBois. one of 
the New Paltz Patentees, bought a large tract of land in this 
part of Pennsylvania and in this section three of his daughters 
and their husbands located. Isaac LeFevre, of Pennsylvania, 
has a numerous and highly respectable line of descendants. In 
December, 1896, an organization of the LeFevre and l*"erree 
families was formed for historical purposes. 

'J"he Xew R<Khelle LeFevres came to this cnuntry at a much 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 409 

later date than the others of the name. They are descended 
from John LeFevre, a native of Havre de Grace in France, 
who went fn^m his native country to St. Domingo. His son 
John, born in 1752, died in 1837, emigrated to New Rochelle, 
N. Y. John left a family of seven children, of whom the eldest 
was the late Peter E. LeFevre, captain of one of the Atlantic 
steamers sailing from Xew York. Hon. F^en. LeFevre, of 
Ohio, is a grandson of John. 

With this brief notice of other families of Huguenot descent 
bearing the name of LeFevre we take up the history of the two 
brothers, Andre and Simon, who settled at New Paltz. 

The LeFevre Family at New Paltz 

The old people, in noting the family characteristics of the 
LeFevres, said they lacked the energy of the Hasbroucks and 
DuBoises ; they would not work hard themselves, nor make 
their slaves work hard ; they were not so noted for ])ook learn- 
ing as the Beviers ; they could not talk well ; but on the other 
hand they knew when to keep the mouth shut. This is a most 
important quality, meaning prudence and oftentimes good sense 
and judgment. The LeFevres certainly held their own very 
well among the other settlers ; when the church sought release 
from Holland rule and when the country sought release from 
British rule they were on the right side ; in building each 
of the old stone churches they contributed a full share, and in 
the war of the Revolution did not waver : no feuds or family 
quarrels are reported among the LeFevres in the olden days. 

Simon and Andre LeFevre, after leaving France, resided in 
the Palatinate. They arrived at Kingston at an earlier date 
than most of the Xew Paltz Patentees and united with the 
church at that i)lace in April, 1W35. The LeFevre family has 
a large share of well-])reserved traditiimary lore and ample 



410 HISTORY Of XEll' PALTZ 

documentary evidence concerning its later members, but of these 
two brothers we have little knowledge. Probably they were 
mere boys when they came to Kingston, and that is the reason 
their names do not appear on the records for the next twelve 
years, and that would also explain \\li\ there have been found 
no certificates of their church membership in the Palatinate, 
as have turned up in the case of others of the Patentees. We 
have been told that Grandfather Peter LeFevre had a French 
testament and. according to the best recollection of our infor- 
mant, the word "Lyons" was on the flyleaf. This testament 
can not now be found. We think it probable that the LeFevre 
brothers were of the kindred of Jas. LeFevre, the great French 
Reformer and Bible translator, who was bom at Calais, from 
whence came the Hasbrouck brothers. Lille, the home of Louis 
DuBois. was not far off. Louis Bevier was a cousin of the 
Hasbroucks. It is probable that all the Patentees were from 
the same portion of France. In 1635 Adam LeFevre, who 
may have been a relative, went from Calais to Leyden. Thirty 
years afterwards Andre and Simon are in Kingston, but prob- 
ably we shall never know the place of their birth or who were 
their parents, as the baptismal records of Huguenot families 
were destroyed by order of Louis XIV. 

At the granting vi the Xew Paltz Patent in 1677 the names 
of the LeFevre brothers appear with the other Patentees. 
Simon married Elizabeth Deyo, daughter of Christian, the 
Patentee. Their first born child, Abram, who died young, was 
baptised at Kingston in 1679; their son Isaac, the ancestor of 
the Bontecoe tribe, was baptised at Xew Paltz, October 28, 
1683, and their son Jean (Jan in Dutch, John in English) was 
baptised October 2S. 16S5. Wc find no record of the baptism 
of the son Andre (in English Andrew, in Dutch Andries). 
He is first mentionecl as joining tlie church here in 1700. 



HISTORY OF XEW FALTZ 411 

Of Simon and Andre, the Patentee, we find but little account 
in the early records of New Paltz. Neither of them lived very 
long after the scttknKiu here. In 1680 Andre sold to Hyman 
Albertson Rosa a house at Hurley, which he had bought of the 
executors of Cornelius Wynkoop. In 1681 his name appears 
as godfather at the baptism of Andre, son of Louis Bevier, 
and in 1694 as godfather at the baptism of Daniel, son of Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck. Andre was the only one of the Patentees 
who did not marry. He doubtless made his home with his 
brother, whose children at his death inherited his property. 
He certainly outlived his brother, but we can not give the date 
of his death. An ancient tombstone in the old graveyard, 
bearing simply the initials A. L. F., marks the grave either of 
the Patentee or of his nephew who bore his name. 

Simon, the Patentee, built his house in the northern part of 
the present churchyard, where it stood until the present church 
was built, in 1839. In 1678 Simon, acting for his father-in- 
law. Christian Deyo, transferred a house at Hurley to Cornelius 
Wolverson. In 1689 the names of the LeFevre brothers and 
the other Patentees, except Christian Deyo (who was dead), 
appear in the list of persons taking the oath of allegiance. 

The only family paper in existence, so far as we know, re- 
lating to Simon is an agreement between the son and four sons- 
in-law of Christian Deyo in 1687 for an equitable division of 
his property. Simon must have died about 1690. His widow 
married Moyse (Moses) Cantain, a French Protestant, whose 
wife had died on the passage to America. In 1693, May 21, 
they had a son, Peter, baptised and he is the ancestor of the 
Cantine family. 

Cantain occupied the house until the LeFevre boys were 
grown and then moved to Ponckhockie. In 1700 we find his 
name as lieutenant in a military company, the rest of whose 



412 H/STORV OF A'£/f PALTZ 

officers were Xcw Paltz men. He probably left our village 
shortly after that date. In the tax list of 171 2 the property is 
assessed to "Andre LeFevre & Co.," meaning, of course, the 
three brothers and their sister Mary, who married Daniel Du- 
Bois. son of Isaac, the Patentee. 

The LeFevre property in this assessment roll is valued at 
£270 and is the largest assessment on the roll, except those of 
Louis Bevier and Abm. DuBois. 

In 1 71 3 a division was made among the children, who had 
until that date jointly owned the one-sixth of all the lands in 
the patent, which they had heired from their father Simon 
and their «ncle Andre, and likewise the one-fifth of the share 
of Christian Deyo. which had come to them from their mother. 
The paper containing the apportionment to the sister Mary, 
who had married Daniel DuBois, has come down among the 
papers of that family and is as follows, certain portions being 
illegible and marked with stars : 

To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall 
or may come Andre Lefevre of the town of new palls in the 
County of Ulster and province of Xew York in America Isaac 
Lefevre of the same place Jean Lefevre of the same place the 
heires of Andre Lefevre and Symon Lefevre both late of the 
new palls Deceased Send Greeting Whereas the said Andre 
Lefevre and Symon Lefevre in theire lifetime were possessed 
& seized of two-twelfths and of the one-fifth part of a twelfth 
part of all the land and appurtenances * * * within the 
bounds and limmitts of the Pattent of the Town * * afore- 
said and whereas the Partners of the said lands of the * * 
by theire certain deed or instrument in writing under their 
hand * * the twenty-fifth day of Jany anno Domini * * 
Did convey unto the said .\ndre LeFevre Isaac Lefevre Jean 
Lefevre and Marv Lefevre * * now wife of Daniel Du- 



HISTORY OF XEll' FALTZ 413 

Bois of the new palls aforesaid all their lotts and parts of the 
Lands within the bounds and Limmitts of the new palls afore- 
said as in and by the said deed or instrument in writing there- 
unto being had doth and ''' appear and whereas by the 
division of the said parts and lotts of the said new palls afore- 
said The Lotts and parts hereafter in these presents more par- 
ticularly mentioned and expressed are fallen unto the said Daniel 
DuBois and IMary his wife Xow for a confirmation of the same 
unto them the said Daniel Dubois & Alary his wife their heirs 
and assigns forever Know Yee that the said Andre Lefevre 
Isaac Lefevre and Jean Lefevre Have given granted conveyed 
assured Ratified Released and confirmed and by these presents 
for themselves and their heirs Do freely and Clearly give grant 
convey assure Release Ratifie and confirme unto the said Daniel 
Dubois and Alary his wife & to their heirs and assigns forever 
all that certain lott lying and being on the north side of the 
palls creek on a certain piece of land call avienjer or piece of 
oates Between the lotts of Jean Hasbrouck and the said Daniel 
Dubois and also a certaine lott lying on the north side of the 
palls creek on a piece of land called pasture between the lotts 
of Jean Hasbrouck and Abram DuBois allso a certaine lott of 
land on the northeast of the high bridge so called between the 
lotts of Daniel Dubois & Lewies Bevier and also a certaine lott 
of land lying on the north of the palls creek on a piece of land 
called the Little bontekow between the lotts of the said Daniel 
DuBois and Pieter Doyo and also a home lott and pasture land 
thereunto adjoining lying in the Town of the new palls on the 
east side of the * * Lewies Beviere being in length from 
the street to the pas — * * Lefevre equal with the said 
lotts & pastures in length * * Beviere and also to a certain 
parcell of land lying to the north * * of the new palls and 
to the east of the waggon path between the * * Dubois 



414 HISTORY or XEW PALTZ 

and Jean Hasbrouck and also to a just fourth part of * * 
two twelfth parts & one fifth part of a twelfth part of said 
* * new palls aforesaid which is nott yett devided and layd 
out to have and to hold the said lotts parts and parcels of lands 
with all and singular the * appurtenances thereunto be- 
longing or in anywise appertaining unto them the said Daniel 
DuBois and Mary his wife their heirs and assigns forever to 
the sole and only proper use benefit and behof of them the said 
Daniel Dubois and Mary his said wife their heirs and assigns 
forever they paying rendering and yielding yearly and year 
forever the just fourth part of the quit Rent due to her majestie 
for the above mentioned two twelfth parts & one fifth part of 
a twelfth part of the said land in the new palls in witness 
whereof the said Andre Lefevre Isaac Lefevre and Jean Le- 
fevre have hereunto put their hands and seals this twenty- 
second day of October annoy domini 1713. 

Andre le Fevre. 
isaac le Fevre. 
jean le Fevre. 

Sealed and delivered in the presence of us 

Joseph Hasbrouck. 
Solomon hasbroucq. 
Jacob hasbroucq. 

In the presence of me Joseph Hasbrouck justice of the peace 
W. Nottingham Clerk. 

Recorded in libra * * 

W. Nottingham Clerk. 



HISTORY or NEW PALTZ 415 

It is interesting to note that the names of "Httle (in Dutch 
klein) bontekow" and "avienjer," which have come down to 
the present day, were at that early date applied to certain tracts 
of land along the W^allkill, "little bontekow" being the Beaver 
place, near Springtown, and "avienjer" a piece of land on the 
west side of the Wallkill a short distance from our village. It 
is also worthy of note that the name Bontekow, applied to 
lowland along the Wallkill. is at a date when the French lan- 
guage is still the common speech of the people. This would 
seem to indicate that the name was of French origin, and 
in that case it means "neck of good land," if written "Bon- 
ter-cou." 

Jean LeFevre, son of the Patentee, was one of the volunteers 
who marched to the invasion of Canada in 171 1. The next 
year, November 20th, he was married b}' Dominie Peter Vas 
at Kingston, to Catharine Blanshan of Hurley. They located 
on the Paltz Plains. 

Isaac was married at Kingston, ]\Iay 16, 1718, by Dominie 
Peter Vas, to Marytjen Freer, daughter of Hugo Freer, Sen. 
They located at Bontecoe, about four miles north of this 
village. 

Andre married Cornelia Blanshan. We do not find the 
marriage recorded in the church records either at New Paltz 
or Kingston. Their eldest child, Simon, was baptised in 1709. 
Andre kept his father's homestead in this village. 

The names of the three sons of Simon, the Patentee, are 
found in the list of those who built the first stone church in 
1 718 and in the list of those who were assigned seats in the 
church in 1720. At the later date it is noticed that their sister 
Mary, wife of Daniel DuBois, was dead. 

Andre, son of Simon, the Patentee, who married Cornelia 
Blanshan and kept the homestead in this village, had a family 



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TOMBSTONE I V IHK ..t|. im l.uv.v 

I I.IKKUM. .,K.UM) IN THIS VILLA 



H/STORV OF Mill' r.lLTZ 417 

of two sons, Matthew and Simon, and seven daughters, who 
were known as the "seven sisters." 

In the Hst of mihtia officers in Ulster county, in 1717, we 
find Andre's name as sole lieutenant in Capt. Hoffman's com- 
pany, which embraced New Paltz and Shawangunk. In the 
same list the names of his brothers, Isaac and Jean, appear as 
privates. 

Isaac's name appears in 1738 as corporal in Capt. Zacharias 
HotYman's company, and at the same date appear as privates 
the names of his eldest son, Isaac, Jr. (who died unmarried 
when a young man), and of his nephews, Abraham and Na- 
thaniel, sons of Jean, and of his nephew Simon, son of Andre. 
The name of Matthew, the other son of Andre, does not appear 
and he had probably moved from New Paltz the previous year 
when he married. 

Matthew moved to Bloomingdale in the northern part of the 
town of Rosendale and the history of his family is given under 
that head. 

Simon married Petronella Hasbrouck and kept the old home- 
stead in this village. They had but one son. wdio was named 
Andries. Junior, born in 1740. Simon died young and his 
widow, who long outlived him, in 1771 sold to the Reformed 
church the southern part of the present churchyard, where 
the second stone church was shortly after erected. The "seven 
sisters" married as follows : Elizabeth married Jonathan Du- 
Bois of Nescotack. ]\Iary married Conrad \^ernoy of Wawar- 
sing, Sarah married Samuel Bevier of Wawarsing, Maritje 
married her cousin Nathaniel LeFevre on the Plains, Cathi- 
rintje married Simon DuBois, Magdalen married Johannes 
Bevier and Rachel married Johannes Bevier of Wawarsing. 

.Vndries. Jr.. who was the only son of Simon and Petronella 
LeFevre, kept the old homestead in this village and married 



4i8 HISTORY O J- XHir P A LT Z 

Magdalena LeFcvrc. They had no children. Andries is re 
membered by the old ])eo]>le under the name of "Flaggus" or 
"Uncle Flaggus." He died in 1811, at the age of 71 years, as 
is shown by the tombstone still standing in the old graveyard. 
After his death the old homestead became the property of 
Andries DuBois of Wallkill and his wife. Elizabeth LeFevre, 
who was a sister of "Flaggus." The DuBoises occupied the 
house until the present brick church was erected, in 1839, when 
it was torn down and the stone went into the church foundation. 
This ends our account of the family of Andre, the eldest son 
of Simon, the Patentee, the male line of the son Simon having 
become extinct and the line of his son Matthew being given 
under the head "Bloomingdale LeFevres." 

The Homestead ox the Plains 

Jean (in Dutch Tan), the third and youngest son of Simon, 
the Patentee, married Catharine Blanshan and built his house 
on the Paltz Plains, between the present cemetery and the rail- 
road track. The old stone house was torn down about 1885. A 
clump of old lucust trees marks the site and the cellar remains. 
In this house we may suppose that Jean lived from the time of 
his marriage, in 1712, until his death, in 1744. Jean left one 
daughter, Margaret, who married Jacob Hoflfman of Shawan- 
gunk, and three sons, Nathaniel. Abraham and Andries. The 
history of the two last named is given under the head '"Kettle- 
borough LeFevres." Nathaniel, who was born November 2, 
1 71 8, married his cousin. Maritje LeFevre, and kept the home- 
stead on the Plains. In the list of slaveholders, in 1755. he is 
set down as the <uvner of two slaves. In the tax list of 1765 
he is assessed for £23 and his mother at £3. Nathaniel and 
liis brother Abraham of Kettleborough were both members of 
the building coniinittrr when the second stone church was 



HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ ^uj 

erected, in 1772. and the initials of his name, with those of 
other members of the building committee, are still to be seen 
in a large stone, which was doubtless the corner stone of that 
church, under the horse block at the south end of the present 
portico. Xathaniel's subscription to the building of the churcli 
was ii8. 

In 1748 Nathaniel obtained, in partnership with his neighbor, 
Noah Eltinge, a grant for a tract of 3,000 acres adjoining the 
Paltz patent on the south. This grant led to a long dispute, 
it being claimed that part of the tract belonged to the Paltz 
patent. After a few years the matter was settled and Noah 
and Nathaniel retained the land. Nathaniel kept a store at 
his home on the Plains, as did his brother Andries at Kettle- 
bo ro. 

Nathaniel left a family of three sons, Matthew, John and 
Jonathan ; also two daughters, ^Margaret and Catharine. John 
was baptised at Shawangunk in 1746, [Margaret at Kingston in 
1743. Matthew at Kingston in 1749 and Jonathan at Shawan- 
gunk in 1753. Margaret married Daniel Deyo, the first of the 
name at Ireland Corners. Catharine married Daniel Jansen of 
New Paltz,' John married Eglie Swart, widow of Capt. Simon 
LeFevre of Bloomingdale and moved to Owasco, where he was 
probably one of the first settlers and where he had descendants 
living at a recent date, but none we believe in the male line. 

Matthew retained the family homestead on the Plains. He 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel LeFevre of Bontecoe. 
The name of Matthew LeFevre appears as a lieutenant in the 
First Company. Third Lister County Regiment. Col. John 
Cantine. The other officers of the comj^any are New Paltz men. 
The name Matthew LeFevre also appears as a lieutenant in the 
Fourth L'lster County Regiment, in the Revolution. Col. Johan- 
nes Ilardenhc-r-jh commanding. The onlv other Matthew Le- 



420 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

Fevre was the one who moved many years before the Revolu- 
tion to Rlooniingdale. Probably one was a lieutenant in the 
Third and the other in the Fourth Regiment. The name Mat- 
thew LeFevre also appears as a private in the 2nd New Paltz 
com]iany. There was no other person at Xew^ Paltz of that 
name. He was probably a private at first and afterwards 
promoted. 

The names of Matthew's brothers, John and Jonathan, appear 
as privates in the Second New Paltz Company, Capt. Abm. 
Deyo, Third Ulster County Regiment. Col. John Cantine. 

The names of the three brothers. Matthew. John and Jona- 
than, appear in the list of those w'ho, in 1775, signed the famous 
"Articles of Association," in which so many citizens of Ulster 
county and other parts of the State expressed their hatred of 
British oppression and their determination never to be slaves. 

We have stated that Matthew kept the homestead on the 
Plains and John moved to Owasco. The youngest brother, 
Jonathan, who married Catharine Freer, located on a portion 
of the patent which his father had obtained and his house was 
built some distance east of the old homestead and some distance 
west of the present residence of his grandson, Hon. Jacob Le- 
Fevre. Matthew, the oldest son. who married Elizabeth Le- 
Fevre and kept the homestead, had a family of six children, 
Moses, Simon, Catharine, Nathaniel. Gitty and Magdalen. 
Nathaniel married Margaret Jansen and kept the old homestead 

for a time, but afterwards sold it to Ackerman and 

located on the New Paltz turnpike, about one-fourth of- a mile 
east of Ohioville, where Dr. Maurice Wurts long afterwards 
resided. Nathaniel left no children. Matthew's son Moses 
married Margaret \'ernooy and located on the turnpike, in the 
town of Lloyd, where his grandson Moses lately lived. His 
children were Elizabeth, Comelia, Matthew and Cornelius, 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 421 

the last named of whom kept his father's house on the turnpike, 
and the other three spent a great portion of their days on the 
Paltz Plains not far from the old stone house of their ancestors. 

Matthew's daughter Catharine married Roelif S. Elting 
and her sister Gitty made her home there until in old age, when 
she removed to the residence of her neice, Mrs. F. S. Mc- 
Kinstry, where she died about 1885, aged nearly 100 years, 
and retaining until extreme old age the vivacity and kindly 
interest in the welfare of others, which we love to think formed 
a delightful trait in the character of our Huguenot great- 
grandmothers. The family Bible of Daniel LeFevre of Bon- 
tecoe passed to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of ^Matthew Le- 
Fevre, and then to their daughter Gitty, who retained it during 
her long liftime. Since her death it has been placed in the 
Memorial House in this village. It is in Dutch, was printed 
in 1 741, and contains the family record of Daniel LeFevre in 
English, commencing with his marriage to Catharine Cantine 
in 1751. 

Simon, the remaining son of Matthew, married Elizabeth 
Deyo. The}- had their home at what is now the LeFevre Deyo 
place, on South street. Simon was a captain in the army in 
the war of 1812, but his company was stationed on Long Island 
and did not do any fighting. Simon left a large family of chil- 
dren, as follows: Gitty, Eliza. Matthew. Philip, Nathaniel, 
Magdalen, Maria, Moses and Andrew. Nearly all of these 
children located at New Paltz or at New Paltz Landing. Gitty 
was Jacob Elting's first wife. Eliza married Clinton Has- 
brouck. Magdalen married Nathaniel J. LeFevre. Maria 
married C. WVnkoop. Nathaniel lived at New Paltz. Mat- 
thew located at W'urtsboro. The other brothers. Moses. Philip 
and Andrew, engaged in navigation on the Hudson. Philip and 
Andrew long rumiing a barge from Highland to Now \ ork in 



422 HISTORY OF XRir PALTZ 

partnership, ami Moses passing a great portion of his life on 
the river as mate or captain of a vessel. 

Going back now once more to the old homestead on the 
Plains, we will take up the line of Jonathan, son of Nathaniel. 
His wife was Catharine Freer. The house in which he resided, 
some distance east of the old homestead, was torn down about 
1S45. Jonathan left two sons. Garret and Jonathan J., and 
one daughter. Mary, who became the wife of Smith Ransom. 
Garret continued to till the ancestral acres and Jonathan located 
at Middletown. 

The Kettleborough LeFevres 

The Kettleborough LeFevres are descended from Andries 
and Abraham, sons of Jan. who was one of the three sons of 
Simon LeFevre, the Patentee. Jan settled on the Paltz Plains, 
in a house between the cemetery and the railroad, torn down 
about 1885. 

Jan LeFevre's name appears in the papers, at the State 
library at Albany, as one of the volunteers in the Ulster county 
company that marched to the invasion of Canada in 171 1. This 
Ulster coimty company was commanded by Capt. Wessel Ten- 
broeck, and with the exception of Jan LeFevre and Isaac Has- 
brouck almost every name in the company is Dutch. In 1728 
Jan LeFevre's name appears in a list of freeholders of New 
Paltz. Jan died May 2"/, 1744, as stated in the family record 
of his son Andries. Jan's son Nathaniel retained his home- 
stead on the Paltz Plains and his other sons, Andries, born in 
1722, and Abram, born in 1716, located in Kettleborough on 
a tract of 1,000 acres, being a part of the Thomas Garland 
tract. 

The Thomas Garland patent was granted January 26, 1721. 
This patent included, likewise, a tract of 500 acres at Ireland 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 423 

Corners, on which Daniel Deyo, son of Abrani Deyo, 
settled. 

This patent, sometime after it was granted to Thomas Gar- 
land, became the i)roperty of Ciarret Kettletas, whose name 
appears as a freeholder in the precinct of New Paltz in 1728. 

Subsequently this tract became the property of John, Abram 
and Peter, sons of Garret Kettletas, and of Cornelius and 
Henry Clopper. There is no reason to suppose that any of 
these parties moved to Ulster county. The Kettletases resided 
in New^ York and were merchants or mariners. The Cloppers 
were merchants. Though they did not move to Ulster county 
themselves, they sent a man who located where the farm of 
Asa LeFevre now is. This man. whose name we have not 
learned, did not make a success at farming, and in 1742 1,000 
acres of the tract were sold to Jan (in English John) LeFevre, 
whose brother-in-law, Daniel DuBois, went on the bond with 
him. as is shown in the following paper: 

Know all men by these presents that I John Lefever of the 
Xewpaltz In the County of Ulster and Colony of New York 
am Held and firmly bound unto Daniel Duboys of the Newpals 
In County and Colony as aforesaid In the sum of sixteen hun- 
dred pounds current money of the Colony of New York as 
aforesaid to be paid to the said Daniel Duboys his certain 
attorneys Executors Administrators or assigns for the which 
payment Well and truly to be made and Done I do bind my 
Self and heirs Executors and administrators and Every of 
them firmly by these presence Sealed with my Seal Dated this 
Twenty first Day of March In the Sixteenth Year of His Ma- 
jestes Reign annoq Domini 1742-3. 

The condition of this obligation is that whereas the above 
named Daniel Dubois at the S])ecial Instance and Request of 
the above naiued bounden John Lefever and for his onlv debt, 



424 fl I STORY or XEir PALTZ 

Duty, matter and Cause. t(\uether with tlie said ]o\\\\ Lefever 
is jointly held autl tirnily l>>und LiUd ( ierret Keteltas of the 
City of New York hi and hy three obligations In the pennell 
sum of Eleven Hundred and Eighty pound Conditioned for the 
true payment of five hundred and ninty pound Current money 
of the Colony of Xew York unto the Said Gerret Keteltas his 
Executors administrators or assigns on or before the first day 
of June one thousand seven hundred and forty three the sum 
of four hundred and ninty pounds and the sum of fifty pounds 
on the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty 
four and the Sum of fifty jiounds the first Day of June then 
next following as by the said obligation and Condition thereof 
(relation being there unto Had) doth and may more fully 
appear If therefor the Said John Lefever his heirs Executors 
administrators Shall do well and trul\ pay or Cause to be paid 
to the above nameil Cerrot Keteltas his Heirs Executors ad- 
ministrators or assigns the just and full sum five hundred and 
Ninty pounds Current money and the CoUony as aforesaid In 
Discharge of the above mention obligation, and also save harm- 
less and keep Indempnifieil the Said Daniel Deboys heirs Ex- 
ecutors administrators as above writing from all Cost, charges, 
Suits or troubles that may happen for or by reason of his being 
bound, as first above mentioned then this obligation to be void 
and of none eft'ect as else to standi ami remain In fidl force 
and virtue. Jean lefevre. 

Sealed and delivered In the presence of 
I»enjamin Dubois. 
Simon Dubois. 

Andries' wife was Rachel, daughter of Xathaniel Dul)ois of 
Blooming drove, Oratige county, and granddaughter of Louis 
DuT.ois. Tr.. of Xew Paltz. They were married October 20, 



HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 425 

1745. Andries' house stood near Andries A. Dubois' late resi- 
dence and was torn down about 1850. 

The traditions all agree that when the tirsi settlers located 
in Kettleborough the gravelly soil of that region was consid- 
ered very poor. There was not sutficient stone for building 
purposes and an arrangement was made by which stone could 
be procured elsewhere. There was little timber on the eastern 
portion of this tract, as the Indians used to burn over the land 
antl it was now just growing up in bushes, over which the deer 
leaped. In those old days wheat was the staple crop and a 
gravelly soil is not good wheat land. There was, however, a 
certain proportion of clay land, and when a farm was divided 
the son who took clay land was obliged to accept fewer acres 
than the other. One of the stories told illustrating the hard 
lot of the Kettleborough farmer, on his gravelly acres in those 
old days, is that at a certain wedding the Kettleborough people 
were not invited and when the question was asked why they 
had been omitted the answer was made that they had enough 
hard times without being put to the trouble of attending 
weddings. 

We think the stories about the early settlers in Kettleborough 
being poverty stricken are much exaggerated. At any rate 
Andries LeFevre was a member of the Provincial Congress, 
which met in New York in 1775 and 1776. adjourning in May 
of the latter year. Andries likewise kept a store, as did his 
brother Nathaniel, on the Paltz Plains, and the Hasbroucks 
at Guilford at the same date. Andries' account book, as well 
as his family P)ihlo with the family record in Dutch, are now 
in the possession of the family of his great-granddaughter. Mrs. 
Josiah P. LeFevre. The account b<xik is also in Dutch antl 
the items are quite interesting. After a while he discontinued 
the mercantile business, assigning as a reason that his m<iney 



426 HISTORY OF XEJV PALTZ 

was "all in the bushes," that is scattered around and c<:)uld not 
be collected of the neighbors who had boug^ht his g^oods. 

Andries LeFevre lived to the extreme age of 90 years. He 
is buried in the family burying-ground now on the John H. 
Wurts farm. His grave is marked by a tombstone erected 
long afterwards by his son Johannes. 

Andries left a family of two sons and six daughters. These 
all married as follows : Xalhaniel married Mary Deyo, Johan- 
nes married Elizabeth DuBois. Gertrude married Philip Deyo, 
Mary married Isaac LeFevre of Bontecoe, Catharine married 
Wessel DuBois. Elizabeth married Zachariah Bruyn. Cornelia 
married Solomon Elting, Sarah married Josiah R. Elting. 

It is quite a prevalent idea with the present generation that 
the New Paltz people in Colonial times did not work very much. 
This may have been true sometimes, but it was not always 
the case. Mother tells us the following story as related by her 
grandmother, Elizabeth DuBois. daughter of Andries DuBois : 
When she married her husband. Johannes LeFevre, and moved 
from Wallkill. then called New Hurley, to Kettleborough, she 
"moved in" with the family of her husband's father, Andries 
LeFevre, who with his brother Abraham were the first settlers 
in Kettleborough. Her husband had six sisters, all of whom 
married sooner or later, but these young w'omen before they 
married and left the Kettleborough home had learned to work, 
and to work hard — they would hurry up to get the washing 
out of the way in the forenoon in order that they might sort 
or pare apples in the afternoon, and then in the evening they 
would spin. The eldest of these sisters married Philip Deyo 
and the youngest married Josiah R. Elting, and these alone 
have a large number of descendants in New Paltz, while the 
other four have a smaller number of great-grandchildren in 
this vicinitv. 



HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ ^27 

Andries' son Johannes (usually called Squire Hons) was 
baptized January 18, 1761. He lived at his father's homestead 
for a number of years, but built for his son Andries J. and 
finally lived himself in. the house, now owned by his great- 
grandson. J. Elting LeFevre. Johannes w-as a young man in 
the time of the Revolutionary war and performed some service 
for the patriot cause by taking a load of arms from New Paltz 
to the army. 

Johannes left a family of two sons, Andries J. and Nathaniel, 
born November 5, 1786, and four daughters, all of whom mar- 
ried as follows : Andries J. married Hannah DuBois, Nathaniel 
married Magdalene Hornbeck, Sarah married ^latthew J. Le- 
Fevre. Rachel married James Jenkins, Petronella married- Dan- 
iel A. Deyo and Cornelia married George Wurts. 

Andries J., son of Johannes, married Hannah DuBois, daugh- 
ter of Cornelius DuBois, Jr., of Poughwaughtenonk. Andries 
J. occupied the house and farm now owned by his grandson, 
J. Elting LeFevre. The house was a very fine building for 
those old days and the farm is still considered the best in the 
neighborhood. Andries died at the early age of thirty-five and 
his wife about ten years afterwards. Their children were Cor- 
nelius D., who kept his father's homestead; Johannes A., who 
moved to Michigan ; Andries A., who located near jModena ; 
Gertrude, who married Rcelif DuBois, and Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried Josiah P. LeFevre. 

Nathaniel, the son of Johannes, married Magdalen Hornbeck. 
They lived for a while in the old stone house of Andries. the 
pioneer, and afterwards built a new house a short distance south. 

They had a large family of sons and one daughter, as follows : 
Johannes, C. Hornbeck, Luther, Andries, DuBois. Sarah M., 
James, Egbert, Matthew. Sarah AL married Joseph Has- 
brouck. Andries and Johannes emigrated to Kalamazoo county, 



428 HI ST UK)' or XEir PALTZ 

Mich., in tlicir youth aiul Matthew in middle age. DuBois 
tills a portion of the ancestral acres, James was for many years 
a preacher of the gospel at Middlebush, N. J., Hornbeck and 
Luther are dead. Egbert died when a young man. 

Nathaniel, the son of Andries. the pioneer, located about a 
mile south of the residence of his brother Johannes. His wife 
was Mary Deyo. He kept a store, as his father had done be- 
fore him, and raised a large and robust family of sons, as fol- 
lows : Andries, Jonas, Lewis, Abram X., Jacobus. 

Nathaniel is spoken of as an energetic man. who made money 
and saved it. As an evidence of the health fulness of his family, 
it is said that the door of his house usually stood open in all 
sorts of weather. His house burned down about 1825. Na- 
thaniel's sons located as follows : 

Jonas located at New Hurley. He had one son, John. wliD 
married Nancy Ransom. 

Nathaniel's son. Abraham N.. lived near Modena. where his 
son-in-law. Andries A. LeFevre. afterward resided. His wife 
was Sarah LeFevre, daughter of Isaac LeFevre of Bontecoe. 
They had three sons : Josiah, Nathaniel and Abm. A., and three 
daughters : Maria, who married Andries A. LeFevre ; Rachel, 
who married Andrew Brodhead. and Gertrude. 

Nathaniel's son Andries lived on what is known as the Jacob 
W'estbrook place of late years. He had a large family of 
daughters, all of whom married. 

Nathaniel's youngest son. Jacobus, married Elizabeth Jan- 
sen. They lived on what is now known as the John H. Wurts 
fann. Their children were as follows : Maria, who married 
Josiah LeFevre; Blandina, who married Rnelif Elting: Eliza, 
who married Deyo DuBois; Margaret, who married Cornelius 
W'urts ; Lewis, who married Christina Hornbeck; Daniel, who 
married Ellen LeFevre; Rachel, who married W'ni. Deyo. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



429 




THE HOUSE OF ABRAHAM LE FEVRE. ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS AT 
KETTLEBOROUGH 



430 HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 

Nathaniel's son Lewis kept his fatlier's homestead, an old 
stone house, which was burned down and rebuilt as a frame 
house many years ago. Lewis married Rachel Bell. They left 
but one child, Nathaniel, usually called "Sing" because he was 
often singing to himself. 

Going back now to Abraham, brother of Andries. the other 
pioneer settler at Kettleborough. we find that he was born in 
1716, married Maria Bevier and located at Kettleborough 
about 1742. His stone house is still standing and is now the 
tenant house on the Solomon \'an (Jrdcn farm. Aljraham left 
a family of six sons, John Solomon. Noah. Nathan, Samuel, 
-Philip, and four daughters, Catharine, Magdalene, Margaret 
and Rachel. Catharine married Daniel DuBois. Rachel mar- 
ried Johannes DuBois, Margaret married \'ernoy and 

after his death Al)m. Bevier. Magdalene married Andries Le- 
Fevre, usually called "Flagus," and lived with him in the old 
LeFevre homestead at New Paltz village. They had no children. 

We find that the names of four of Abraham's sons, John, 
Solomon, Noah and Philip, are recorded as soldiers in the Revo- 
lution. Of the army record of Noah we have this brief ac- 
count : He was a sergeant in Brodhead's Company, Hathorn's 
Regiment. Orange County Militia. He was at the battle of 
Stillwater — not under fire, but stationed in the reserve, within 
hearing of the battle, expecting every moment to get the order 
to advance. However, night came on before they were needed, 
and the battle was not renewed the next day. He was, we be- 
lieve, a three months man and returned home shortly after this 
battle and was never again engaged. Solomon was a jirivate in 
the same company with his brother Noah. The two other 
brothers, John and Philip, were privates in Col. John CaiUine"i> 
regiment. Philiji was stationed at one time in the f<"^rt at 
W'awarsing. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALIZ 431 

John, the eldest son of Ahrahani tlie pioneer, married Mary 
LeFevre. He hved in the stone house in which Johnston Has- 
brouck now resides. This liouse passed from John to his son 
Matthew, who married Sarah LeFevre, and from him to his 
son John ^i., who resides in his old age at Peekskill. ^Matthew 
had one brother, Abraham, who lived at Ireland Corners. 

Noah married Cornelia Bevier of New Hurley. He lived in 
a house built by his father Abraham, the pioneer, where Na- 
thaniel Deyo now lives. Noah left two sons, John N. (Capt. 
Hans) and Jonas N., and four daughters, one of whom mar- 
ried Cornelius Du]>ois of Marlborough. The tirst named son 
married Sarah DuBois, daughter of Cornelius DuBois, Jr., of 
Poughwoughtenonk. He remained with his father-in-law for 
several years, until the death of the latter, when in 181 7 his 
father purchased land of Charles Brodhead, to which he moved 
and there he resided on the place where his son Josiah lived 
until he removed to this village. Jonas N. married Catharine 
Budd and after her death Jane Westbrook, widow of Luther 
Hasbrouck. He occupied the homestead until his death. 

Philip, the youngest son of Aliram the pioneer, occupied his 
father's homestead, and had twice as much land as his brothers 
each had, as he heired the entire portion of his brother Solo- 
mon, who did not marry. Philip's farm comprised the present 
farms of his grandsons, Abram and Asa LeFevre, and the Solo- 
mon \'an (Irden farm. 

Philip's wife was Elsie DuBois of Wallkill, sister of the wife 
of his neighbor, Johannes LeFevre (Squire Hans). Their 
children were Abraham P., Andries P.. Solomon P., INIagdalene, 
who married Mathusalem Elting; Maria, who married Abra- 
ham \'an ( )rden, and Sarah. 

Abraham P. married Margaret, daughter of Daniel Jansen, 
and occupied his father-in-law's farm after his death. His 



4.52 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

second wife was Maria Elting, widow of Dr. Bogardus. An- 
dries P. married Magdalene, daughter of Philip Elting. He 
lived in the house built for him by his father, where his son 
Asa now lives. Solomon P. married Sarah, daughter of Philip 
Deyo, and after her death Jane, daughter of Ezekiel Elting. 

There are two LeFevre burying-grounds at Kettleborough, 
in one of which Andries and his descendants are interred. In 
the other the descendants of Abraham are buried. Andries' 
grave is marked by a stone erected some time after his death 
by his son Johannes. The l)urying-groun(l has been kept in 
good order. 

In 1820 there were eleven families of LeFevres living in 
Kettleborough. The heads of the families were as follows : 

Johannes (Squire Hans), Nathaniel. Lewis, Jacobus, John 
N.. Philip. Solomon P.. Andries P.. Xoah. Jonas X.. Matthew J. 

The LeFevre Family at Bontecoe 

On the banks of the W'allkill. four miles north of this village, 
on the farm of Simon LeFevre, stand two old stone houses. 
A little farther up the W'allkill is the cellar of another, which 
was torn down about 1825. The locality is dear to the writer 
as the home of his childhood. The first half dozen years of 
his life were spent in the northernmost of these houses. Here 
father and grandfather and great-grandfather and great-great- 
grandfather tilled the soil. 

The surroundings have changed considerably since the days 
of childhood. But the house is there and the Wallkill is there, 
and a jwrtion at least of the old grove of pear trees on the 
bank of the stream. The well is unchanged, and the low cellar 
with its immense beams, and the old loft, and the curious little 
closets and carved chimney front, where the Franklin used to 
stand in old davs. The Franklin is gone and most of tiic orch- 



HISTORY or Xliir PALTZ 433 

ard is gone and ilic kitcln-'ii lias l)ccn t(~irn down, hut most in- 
teresting of all. there still remains the "Slawbo)ik" — the square 
bunk, let down from the chimney side in the living room of the 
house, oj^cn in the evening and closed up in the day-time. 
Here, when the writer was a little fellow, three brothers lay 
side by side. Here, father tells us, when he was a boy also 
three little children lay side by side. 

The "rift" in the Wallkill is not the same as of old, for the 
hateful "rebel" weeds have found a foothold there, but the 
sw'imming place is unchanged. 

But from a description of the place we must pass to our 
account of the houses and the people that lived in them. 

The old houses have been occupied by tenants for half a 
century. For the same period there has been but one family 
of LeFevres in the neighborhood. 

But. next to Xew Paltz. Bontecoe is perhaps the oldest set- 
tled place in this vicinity, and many years before the Revolution 
there were three families of brothers — sons of Isaac LeFevre, 
living at this locality. Scattered over Ulster county and else- 
where there is now quite a numerous tribe that can trace their 
ancestry to one or another of these three brothers. 

Simon LeFevre, the Patentee, left three sons, named Andre, 
Jean and Isaac. The first named kept the homestead in this 
village ; Jean lived in the house on the Plains, torn down about 
1885. and Isaac, who was born in 1683 — half a dozen years 
after the first settlement of the place — moved to Bontecoe, four 
miles north of the village. The date of his settlement at Bon- 
tecoe was about 1718. when he was married and was 35 
years old. His wife was ^Faria, daughter of Hugo Freer, 
Senior. 

The original house in which Isaac LeFevre first lived at 
Bontecoe was on the bank of the Wallkill a few rods north of 



434 HISTORY OF XEW P A LT Z 

the southernniost oi the two ohl stone houses of Simon Le- 
Fevre, now stan<hn<;^. 

This pioneer house was destroyed by hrc when Isaac's chil- 
dren were quite small — the oldest about ten years old. The 
l)arents had fjone to the Paltz on a winters eveninj^ visit to 
friends, ieavinij the little children, four sons and a daughter, 
at home and with the doors locked. 

The house caught fire in some manner not related. The 
oldest son. Isaac, was sometimes able to unbolt the cellar door, 
but at other times his strength was not sufficient. In this case 
he was able to move the l)olt and the little ones escaped and 
found shelter at an outbuilding — a bee house. Here their 
parents found them on their return from their visit, safe and 
unhurt. 

The house which had been burned was rejilaced by a new 
one at about the same site. Here we may suppose that Isaac 
LeFevre lived and died in peace. Xo Indians troubled the 
settlers. Bontecoe land in those early days was noted for the 
production of wheat. Although four miles from the old set- 
tlement at the Paltz. we may sup])ose that the family of Isaac 
LeFevre was not lonesome, for the whole community of set- 
tlers had a joint ownership and cultivated in common the "Bon- 
tecoes" — necks of good land, of which there were at least four 
lying in the bends of the W'allkill between Xew i'altz and 
Isaac's house. 

There is still in existence an ancient paper, written in Dutch, 
which is the (juit claim from his brothers and sisters to Isaac 
for their interest in the property at Bontecoe. 

It must be noted that these first settlers cared nothing ior 
the upland. an<l it was not until the last century that much of 
the upland was cleared oft. So late as 1810 there were but 



HISTORY or Mlir PALTZ 435 

two clearings cast of tlic old homestead in all the (ierhovv 
neighborhood. 

There are nc^ tales of encounters with Indians, and no very 
exciting ones of wild animals. In one case the story goes that 
two of the sons of Isaac LeFevre found the tracks of a "pan- 
ther" around the house in the morning, after a heavy fall of 
snow. They followed the tracks and, after a weary tramp, 
found the animal in a tree. 

One of the brothers laid his gun over the shoulder of the 
other to get a good aim. then fired and killed the savage beast. 

It is related of Isaac LeFevre. that being in Albany once on 
some business, he ran a foot race and that while the race was in 
progress his friends to cheer his drooping spirits cried to him 
in the French language, "Courage Isaac." He won the race. 
One son of Isaac, who bore his father's name, went to the 
Potomac, lived there a while, then returned home and died. 
He was never married. 1-V)ur other children, three sons and 
one daughter, married and left families. The oldest son. Petrus, 
was born in 1720, December 25th. He died in 1806, aged 85 
years. He married Elizabeth \'ernooy and occupied his father's 
homestead. The next son, Johannes, was born in 1722, 
October loth. He married Sarah X'ernooy and for him a stone 
house was built about 150 yards farther up the W'allkill. 
Daniel, the youngest son, was born in 1725, November 8th. 
He married, in 1750, Catharine Cantine, who was the grand- 
daughter of Moses Cantine, who married the widow of Simi')n 
LeFevre. the Patentee. The house in which Daniel lived was 
about 150 yards down the \\'allkill from the one in which his 
father had spent his days and which the oldest son, Petrus. 
continued to occupy. 

Besides these three .sons mentioned. Isaac LeFevre had one 
daughter, Mary. wIht married Col. Johannes Ilardenburgh, Jr.. 



436 



HISTORY OF NEIV PALTZ 





HOUSE BUILT BY MAJ. ISAAC LE FE\-RE ON THE SITE OF THAI 
GRANDFATHER ISAAC 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 437 

of Esopus. who owned a large tract of country at Swartekill 
and saw much active service in the Revolutionary war. Isaac 
LeFevre died October 31. 1752, aged 69 years. He was buried 
in the Freer burying-ground about two miles north of his house. 

Petrus, the Oldest Sox and His Descendants 

The oldest son, Petrus. occupied his father's house during a 
long life. Tradition says that Petrus LeFevre could have 
claimed the entire estate, under the old English law, but that 
he shared it equally with his brothers. 

Petrus died in 1806, at the age of 85, and is buried in the 
old family burying-ground on the farm of Simon LeFevre, 
Petrus left a large family of sons and daughters, as follows : 
Jacob, Isaac, Cornelius, John P., Sarah, Jane and Ann. Jacob, 
the oldest son, married Lydia Deyo, and lived near this village, 
on the other side of the Wallkill, where Jacob Wurts now lives. 
He was the father of Christopher LeFevre and Tjerck. 

Christopher's family lived after his death in this village, in 
the house now owned and occupied by Josiah J. Hasbrouck. 

Petrus' next son was Isaac, INIajor Isaac, as he was called. 
He married Catharine Burhans. He built a new house where 
his father had lived. This was the third house on that site 
and is still standing. It was a fine house in its day. He was 
a noted man and a famous surveyor. 

Major Isaac afterwards moved to Rifton and built a large 
frame house, which is still standing. The Major was one of 
the best remembered men of that period. He was a member 
of the Legislature in 1803. and Supervisor of Xew Paltz in 
1807 and 1808. 

After moving to Swartekill he was Supervisor of the ti:>wn 
of Esopus from 1820 to 1825. He was at one time a State sur- 
veyor, going on this business a great distance from home. 



438 HISTORY Of Mill' I'ALTZ 

About all tilt.' surveys in this vicinity li)r a long period were 
made by him. 

He was for a time the owner of a famous race horse called 
the Grand Bey, which, we believe, was never beaten in Ulster 
county. 

Petrus' ne.xt son was Cornelius, who married Maritje \'an 
W'agenen and moved to Creek Locks or LeFevre Falls. He 
was the father of Peter C, Isaac C. and Washington. 

Cornelius was Supervisor of the town of Hurley from 1839 
to 1 84 1. Hurley at that time included a considerable portion 
of the town of Rosendale, which was not created as a town 
until 1844. 

The other son of Petrus, John P.. settled at first at Swarte- 
kill and afterwards exchanged property with his brother Isaac 
and moved to the old llontecoe homestead. His widow, whose 
maiden name was Mary Hardenburgh, long survived him and 
occupied the old homestead with her family until it was sold, 
about 1840. 

Besides these sons. Petrus left three daughters, one of whom 
married Samuel DuBois of New Paltz, another Charles Har- 
denburgh of Esopus. and another married Elias Bevier and 
moved to Broome county. 

This ends the history of the most central and oldest of the 
three stone houses, as far as it was owned by the family who 
built it. It passed into the hands of strangers about 1840, 
and from that time to the present has frequently changed hands. 
It is now owned by Simon LeFevre. 

We will now take up the history of the northernmost of the 
three houses, which was built for Daniel LeFevre. the great- 
grandfather of the writer. 

Daniel Lel'evre was born Xovcmbcr 8, 1725. and died Feb- 
ruarv 10, 1800, aged 74 years. He is buried in the old family 



/I I STORY OF A/iir PALTZ 439 




TKEE NEAR CELLAR OF JOHANNES LE FEVRE S HOUSE 



440 HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

bur\iiii,'^-t,a(iun(l. and the spot is marked by a stone of the 
species of bn)\vn sandstone nsed in those days. Daniel always 
lived in the house wliich is still standing — the northernmost of 
the three. Slavery existed in New York in those days, and in 
his will Daniel disposed of four slaves. We have no record ot 
any notable events in his life, and believe that he lived as a 
quiet citizen. Xot long ago we looked over his will and. from 
the expressions contained therein, we doubt not that he was a 
pious, God-fearing man. The north room, now standing, was 
added to the house in Daniel's day. 

Daniel had two brothers-in-law. Johannes Hardenburgh. Jr.. 
and John Cantine. who were colonels in the patriot army, and 
another brother-in-law, Matthew Cantine, who was a member 
of the Council of Safety, but he did not serve himself in the 
army and was too old in fact. Daniel's Uible in Dutch, con- 
taining the family record in English, is in the Memorial House 
in Xew Paltz. likewise his old arm chair. 

Daniel left but one son. Peter, born in 1759. February 10. 
and two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. INIary married Jona- 
than Deyo and lived with him near the place where his great- 
grandson. Perry Deyo. lately lived, near the village. Elizabeth 
married Matthew LeFevre and lived with him in the old home- 
stead of Jan LeFevre, on the Paltz Plains. 

Peter LeFevre contimied to occupy the old homestead of 
his father Daniel. By his father's will he received that portion 
of his estate lying west of the Ulack Creek swamp. 

JoiiANM.s LiJ-'iA rl:'s IIoi'sl: 

We will leave for the ])rescnt the history of the descendants 
of Daniel LeFevre, who continued to occupy his homestead, 
and pass to the other brother. Johannes. wIk^ lived all his life 



HISrORV OF XEir PALTZ 441 

in the stone house farthest up the W'allkill, of which the celhir 
is still seen but the house has been long torn down. 

We have stated that Johannes was born in 1722. and that he 
married Sarah \'erno()\. Johannes died June 27. 1771. at the 
comparatively early age of 49 years, and was buried in the old 
family burying-ground, on the farm of Simon LeFevre. Jo- 
hannes left but one child, a son named Isaac, who married 
Mary LeFevre, daughter of Andries, the first settler in Kettle- 
borough. Isaac occupied his father's homestead all his life. 
He died in middle age, leaving a large family of children. His 
widow married again, her second husband being Capt. Abm. 
Deyo, who was a widower at this time, living in the old Deyo 
homestead in this village. She did not move to her second 
husband's home, but continued to reside at Bontecoe. She bore 
one son as the fruit of this second marriage. This child was 
named Abram. His mother died when he was an infant, only 
a few days old. and he was taken on a pillow to his mother's 
brother. Johannes LeFevre, at Kettleborough. Afterwards 
this infant became Judge Abram A. Deyo of Modena. 

The family of Isaac LeFevre. after the death of their mother, 
scattered. Both parents were dead. The farm was sold to 
Benj. Deyo. who afterwards traded it with Jacob J. Hasbrouck. 
who thus became owner of the old homestead, and shortly after- 
wards moved to Bontecoe and built the brick house which his 
grandson Luther now owns. Soon afterwards, about 1830, 
this old stone house was torn down. 

This Isaac, son of Johannes, was an only child, but his 
family was large enough to make ample amends. His children 
were John I.. Andries, Rachel, Peter. Daniel. Sarah and Gittv. 
These children scattered far and wide. Daniel settled in Dela- 
ware county, and two of his sons afterwards carried <>n busi- 
ness in lohnstown. Fulton countv. and one of them, (iilixTt, 



442 HISTORY Of XEir PALTZ 

resided in Albany. John I. settled at Elmore's Corner, and 
afterwards at Highland. Andries. Peter and Rachel located in 
the town of W'awarsing — the two boys at Greenfield, on land 
coming from their grandmother X'ernooy — Rachel married 
John Brodhead at Lurtnkill, father of Henry, Andrew and 
others. Sarah married Abram N. LeFevre and lived near 
Modena in the house now occupied by H. B. LeFevre. Gitty 
married Dr. John Bogardus. who was a leading citizen of New 
Paltz in 1830. Jdim I., the eldest son, who settled at Elmore's 
Corners and afterwards moved to Highland, carried on busi- 
ness on the dock. He ran for State Senator once, but was 
beaten by Wells Lake. He was Supervisor of New Paltz in 
j8i6 and 1817. He left but one Son, Alexander, who for many 
years was on the barge running from Highland. 

This completes the history of the third house and the family 
who built it. 

The northernmost of the three old stone houses still remained 
in the family and Grandfather Peter LeFevre remained the 
sole representative of the old settlers' stock. He was of pure 
French blood, and was a tall, spare, dark-complexioned man. 
Being an only son, he was well educated for those days. He 
was a lad of seventeen at the time of the Declaration of Ameri- 
can Independence. He did some service in tlie patriot cause 
as a teamster, going with a load of arms to the American army. 
Part of the time during the war he had charge of the ferry of 
his uncle. Moses Cantine, at Ponckhockie. 

He married, in 1789, Magdalen, daughter of Roelif J. lil- 
ting. Grandfather had something of a taste for politics. He 
was Supervisor of the town in 1797-8. and a member of the 
Legislature in 1799. \\'e have seen the curious-looking old 
knee breeches worn by him when in the Legislature. For a 
long time he was <>ne of the associate judges of L'lster county. 



fl I STORY OF XEir FALTZ 443 

and in that capacity transacted a great amount of business. 
The book in whicli he recorded a summary statement of the 
cases wliich were tried before him is still in the possession of 
the family. Me also performed a great amount of business in 
the way of drawing up wills, deeds and legal papers generally. 
We believe that most of the papers of that nature in New Paltz 
were written by him. The desk on which this work was 
done about 1800, is now in possession of the writer. 

But One Family Rem.mning 

As the northernmost liouse was the only one of the three 
now left in the family, we will continue its history a generation 
farther. Peter LeFevre left four sons. Daniel, Ralph. Moses 
P. and Josiah P. Daniel, the eldest son, married ]^Iary Blan- 
shan. widow of Abm. Hasbrouck, and settled on a portion of 
his father's estate, where his son Peter D. afterwards lived, 
in the present town of Rosendale. Daniel w^as a general of 
militia in the old times, and a ^lember of Assembly in 1834. 
He was a short, stout-built, black-eyed man, a surveyor as 
well as a farmer. Although a strong, rolnist man, he died at 
the early age of forty-five. Rali:)h. the second son, married 
Rachel Kiting He lived on the portion of his father's estate 
in the present town of Rosendale. where his son Josiah R. 
afterwards lived, near his brother Daniel. Afterwards he 
moved to the farm in Lloyd, where his sons, Peter R. and 
Josiah R., afterwards lived. Though like his brother Daniel, 
a robust man. he died at the age of forty-nine. 

Family Ciiak.\cti:ristics 

We have alluded to the practice i>f the old people of bestow- 
ing names upon the clearings which ihey o])ened in the forest. 
The name "\'a)it\ntjc" ( sjjring tu'ld ) still is borne by one of 



444 



HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 




IN THIS HOUSE THE WRITER Sl'EXT HIS EARLY YEARS. IT WAS OCCLPIED 
KY HIS FATHER, JOSIAH P., HIS GRANDFATHER PETER AND 
HIS GREAT GRAND-FATHER. DANIEL LE FEVRE 



HISTORY OP XEIV PALTZ 445 

the best fields on the old farm. The name "Maiigerstuck" 
(poor field) has been dropped for the more pretentious one of 
flat meadow. A sandy knoll on the land of Abram Ean, a 
short distance south of the LeFevre buryin<;-ground, is still 
called by the Eans Daim Favres bowery. At some distance 
east of the public highway a clearing of perhaps twenty acres 
was made about 1815, but the rest of Daniel LeFevre's land 
east of the highway remained a forest until a comparatively 
recent period. 

Farming in Bontecoe and at New Paltz in those days was 
very much as it had been for the hundred of years preceding. 

Some of the old people, instead of having a farm in one 
body, had a piece of land here and another there. This came 
from dividing the land among the children. 

The highways were not fenced until perhaps 1825. There 
was but little travel in those days, and when people journeyed 
they had to stop and open the gates. 

\\'e spoke of Major Isaac LeFevre building the southern- 
most of the stone houses still standing. He also built a barn 
on the same premises, which was torn down about 1850. 
Part of the timber of this old barn was of yellow pine and was 
hauled all the way from Greenfield, in the town of W'awarsing, 
where his mother, who was a Vernooy, owned land. This 
barn was torn down by Josiah P. LeFevre, and some of this yel- 
low pine lumber put into his barn which he was then building 
where he afterwards resided. We can not imagine why it was 
considered necessary to draw the lumber so far. 

We must confess that as a general rule, the old people at 
Bontecoe or elsewhere were not apparently inclined to over- 
work themselves. Had they been bent in that direction, the 
cellars might have been dug deeper, so that one would not be 
obliged to stoop so nnich in entering them. Slavery, as it 



44^) HISTORY OF XEJl' P A LT Z 

existed here and in the S<'mth, doubtless i)reveiitfd the whites 
from exertinc]^ themselves as they do at the present day. ^\'hat 
work great-grandfather Daniel LeFevre found for four slaves 
to do on no greater quantity of cleared land than he had we 
canni)t guess. As an instance, perhaps exaggerated, of man- 
agement in the olden times, it is related that the well on the 
Petrus LeFevre place near by, not being in good order, instead 
of deepening it. or digging another, it was filled up. and thence- 
forth, when drinking water was needed, some one of the family 
paddled out on the W'allkill and sank a jug down where the 
springs bubbled up in the stream. There was less necessity 
for hard labor in those old days than at present. There was 
little market for produce. The horses and cattle ran in the 
woods and stock was branded. Grandfather's branding iron 
is still preserved and is now in the Memorial House. \\ e may 
imagine that snow fell to a greater depth then than of late 
years, for a pair of snow shoes of the olden times made of 
thongs of deer hide, intersecting each other and stretching from 
side to side of a wooden frame, is among the other old articles 
that we have seen. 

One of the undertakings. lOO years ago or more, was to 
build a wall a part of the way across the W'allkill and put in 
timbers for the purpose of constructing a tish weir, just below 
Daniel LeFevre's house. lUit the wall raised the water in the 
stream so nuich that the project was abandoned. 

The l)uil<ling of the mill at Dashville about iSio was another 
enterprise of considerable moment for those old days. The 

deed for this property was procured by grandfather of 

Ilardenburgh. and the mill was erected by him. in j^artnership 
with his brothers-in-law. Thili]* and Kz.ekiel Elting. Refort 
thai time handmills had been in use although not in Xew Paltz. 



HISTORY OP XEir PALTZ 447 

and Levi Schryver informs us that he has seen a handmill 
used at Swartekill to supply the neighborhood. 

As a general rule it must be confessed, perhaps, that the 
Bontecoe people in the Colonial period did not show any very 
remarkable degree of enterprise. But on the other hand, if 
they did not work themselves to death, at least they lived to- 
gether in harmony, none of them sold whiskey, the>' treated 
their slaves well, no family quarrels are recorded, they lived 
on good terms with their neighbors. None of them in those 
old days were as rich as certain members of the Elting 01 
Hasbrouck family at New Paltz ; but on the other hand, they 
were generally quite well to do — not poverty stricken by any 
means. 

Altogether they held their own among the old settlers very 
creditably, and it may do their descendants good to study their 
characters and revisit their old homes. 

The following are the names of old people of the LeFevre 
family interred in the graveyard on the farm at Bontecoe, now 
owned by Simon LeFevre : 

Johannes LeFevre, d. 1771, a. 49 years. 

Sarah \'ernooy, wife of Johannes LeFevre. 

Daniel LeFevre, d. 1800, a. 74 years. 

Catharine Cantine, wife of Daniel LeFevre, d. 1799, '^- 7^ 
years. 

Petrus LeFevre, d. 1806, a. 85 years. 

Elizabeth \'ernooy, wife i)f Petrus LeFevre, d. 1807, a. 74 
years. 

Isaac LeFevre, son of Johannes LeFevre, l)orn 1753. 

Peter LeFevre, son of Daniel, d. 1830, a. 71 years. 

Magdalen Eltinge. wife of Peter LeFevre. d. 1823. a. ^j 
vears. 



44S HISTORY OF XEll PALTZ 

John P. LeFevre, son of Petrus, d. 1810, a. 34 years. 
Mary Hardenburg^h. wife of John P. LeFevre, d. 1841. a. 
59 years. 

Jane LeFevre. d. 1852. a. ^2 years. 
Catharine LeFevre, d. 1834. a. 42 years. 
Zebedee LeFevre. d. 183G. a. t^^ years. 

The Bloomingdale LeFevres 

The first settler at Bloomingdale, in the northern part of the 
present town of Rosendale. was undoubtedly Matthew Le- 
Fevre. who moved from the LeFevre homestead in this village. 

Matthew LeFevre was one of the two sons of Andre Le- 
Fevre. who was one of the three sons of Simon, the Paltz 
patentee. ^latthew's location at Bloomingdale w^as on a tract 
of 700 acres, which was purchased for S700. We can not 
fix the date exactly, but it was about 1740, at about which 
same time his cousins, Andries and Abram LeFevre, located at 
Kettleboro and about twenty years after his uncle, Isaac Le- 
Fevre, located at Bontecoe. 

Matthew's wife was a Bevier. His house is still standing 
at what is now called Rock Lock. It is of stone and was 
lately owned by Benj. Hardenburgh and occupied by tenants. 
Matthew had four sons. Conrad, Jonathan. Samuel and Simon. 
Each of these brothers married a Swart from Kingston and. 
we believe, they were all sisters. 

Matthew was a lieutenant in the 3d Regiment of Ulster 
County Militia. John Cantine. colonel, commissions being is- 
sued October 2^, 1775. He subsequently became a captain. 
He was familiarly called the "Old Cajnain." and took his four 
sons with him to the amiy. preferring to do so though the 
voungest was not more than fifteen or sixteen years of age. 



HISTORY OF XEll' PALTZ 449 

One of the sons died from a wound received in the Revolu- 
tionary war. In the records at Albany appears the name of 
Matthew's son Jonathan as a private in Col. Cantine's regi- 
ment. The name of Simon Lel'evre appears as a lieutenant 
and subsequently a captain, commissioned in 1779, in the ist 
Ulster County Regiment. This was Matthew's son Simon. 
Moses P. LeFevre recalls one or two incidents in regard to 
Matthew's record as captain, as related by his grand-mother's 
brother. Col. Cantine. 

Matthew's four sons settled as follows: Conrad in a stone 
house, part of which is still standing in the forks of the creek 
(that is between the W'allkill and Rondout) not far from the 
powder mill. The house i)assed from Conrad to his sons, 
Moses. Adam and Jonathan ( the last named of whom did not 
marry), and all three brothers continued to occupy the house 
of their father. They had one sister, Afifie, who married Daniel 
Blanshan and moved to Western Xew York. Lorenzo Le- 
Fevre. of Rosendale, was a son of Adam. 

Matthew's son Jonathan occupied the original homestead 
after his father's death. He left but one son. Levi, who mar- 
ried a Xewkirk. Levi is the father of our informant. Garret, 
and of Jonathan J. LeFevre of Creek Locks, formerly justice 
of the peace, deceased. 

Matthew's son Samuel lived in a stone house built for him 
bv his father on the top of the Bloomingdale hill. He died 
when a young man. it is said, from a wound received in the 
Revolutionary army. His widow married John LeFevre of the 
Paltz Plains and moved with him to Owasco, in western New 
York, being doubtless among the first settlers there. Samuel 
left one son, Simon, who married a Hendricks and left a family 
of three sons, one of whom. George, resided some years ago 
near Cold Spring Corner. 



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450 11 1 STORY Of XEW I'ALTZ 

Matthew (the first settler's) son, Capt. Simon, lived in a 
stone house built for him by his father on part of his tract, 
about a mile north-east of the Quaker meeting house on the 
Rosendale Plains. Simon was one of the organizers and first 
elders of the Bloomingdale church, which was organized in 
1796 and was built on part of the LeFevre tract. Simon's 
children were Anna, who married Abm. DuBois (father of 
Simon L. and Daniel A.) ; Magdalen, who married Solomon 
Hasbrouck (father of Alexander) ; Samuel and Matthew, the 
last named of whom long kept the lower toll-gate on the Paltz 
turnpike. 

All of the LeFevrcs of the first and second generations who 
settled at Bloomingdale are buried in the old burying-ground. 
on the Conrad LeFevre place, in the forks of the creek, now 
owned by Mr. Hardenbergh. Most of the original tract of 
700 acres has passed out of the family. Jonathan's place was 
sold to Judge Jonathan Hasbrouck. of Kingston. 



HISTORY OF NEW F ALT Z 45^ 



CHAPTER XXXIV 

The Auchmoody Family 

The ancestor of the Auchmoody family in Ulster county is 
Gemes Acmoidec, as the name is entered in the marriage 
record on the church book at New Paltz. The record is in 
French, translated thus: 1731 Oct. 8, Gemes Acmoidec mar- 
ried Mari Doyo, daughter of Christianne Doyo and Mary Le 
Conte. The bans for this marriage appear in the Kingston 
church record as published Sept. 19, and the record is : Jeames 
Auchmoide, young man, born in Scotland, and Maria de Joo, 
young woman, born in New Paltz and both residing there. A 
few months earlier, in ;March of the same year, :Mr. x\uch- 
moody's n«ime appears for the first time on the New Paltz 
church records as godfather at the baptism of a child. There 
was no other person of Scottish nationality who settled in New 
Paltz in the early days. 

^Ir. Auchmoody 's house was built somewhere in the Bonte- 
coe neighborhood ; at least he owned land there. James Auch- 
moody and wife had three sons, David, Christian and Jacobus ; 
also three daughters, Maria, Elizabeth and Rachel. David 
married ^laria DeGraff in 1764. At that time he lived in 
Dutchess county, but afterwards moved to Elmore's Corneis in 
Esopus and finally located near Plutarch, where his grandson 
Jeremiah lived in modern times. The name of David Auch- 
moody appears as one of the enlisted men in the First Regiment 
of Ulster County :Militia in the Revolution. Christian Auch- 
moody located in the present town of Rosendale. on a farm 
which passed to his son Abraham and then to Abraham's son 



452 HISTORY OF X E\V PALTZ 

Jonathan, who spent a long life there and was a highly re- 
spected man. Jacobus, the remaining son of Jeames Auch- 
moody. located on the farm now owned by Alonzo Xeil, in the 
Middletown neighborhood, about three miles north of our vil- 
lage. He married Elizabeth Smith and afterwards Margaret 
Irwin. They had but one son. William, who did not remain 
at New Paltz. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 453 



CHAPTER XXXV 

The Budd Family at New Paltz 

Samuel Budd was a very prominent citizen of New Paltz for 
a long term of years about 1810. He had a wheelwright shop, 
procured the establishment of a stage line through our village 
and had an inn at the corner of Chestnut and North Front 
streets, where Luther Schoonmaker's hotel is now located and 
the fame of this inn extended far and wide. Samuel Budd's 
father, Thomas Budd, was a sea captain and obtained a grant 
for a large tract of land where the city of Monmouth. N. J., 
was afterwards located. From some technicality he failed to 
get or retain possession of this land, though even of late years 
efforts have been made to secure the property. Thomas Budd 
lost his life, and the privateer vessel which he commanded was 
sunk during an engagement with a British cruiser in the Revo- 
lutionary war. During the battle of Monmouth, the house and 
other buildings on the Budd property were burned by the Brit- 
ish and Hessians and the family scattered to the winds. Samuel 
Budd, then a boy of ten. fled to the residence of an uncle' in 
Philadelphia and did not see his mother until a considerable 
time afterwards. 

Samuel Budd's wife was Mary LaRue. They were married 
in 1796. Five children of the Budd family grew up and mar- 
ried. They were Hiram. Wade Hampton. Catharine. Gertrude 
and Laura. Hiram married Maria Deyo. and as his second 
wife Catharine Ann Smedes. Catharine Budd married Jonas 
LeFevre of Kettleborough. Gertrude P>udd marrietl Robert 



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454 HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

Lawson of Xcwburgh. Laura Buckl married Joseph Harris. 
Wade Hampton married Martha J. Brundage. 

A pamphlet containing a history of the Budd family has been 
published. Two brothers, named John and Joseph, came to 
America from England about 1632. Another brother, Thomas, 
came to this country at a later date and settled in New Jersey. 
Samuel Budd. who lived in Xew Paltz, was descended from 
Thomas Budd. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 455 



CHAPTER XXXVI 

The Hardenbergh Family 

The Hardenbergh family has been one of the most respected 
and inHucntial in Ulster county, its members occupying posi- 
tions of trust and responsibility in church and state, in peace 
and war. Of late years there have been comparatively few of 
the name in Ulster county. 

Dr. Corwin in his last edition of "The ^Manuel of the Re- 
formed Church" says : 

Sir Johannes (Hardenbergh) was knighted by Queen Anne 
at the recommendation of the Duke of ]\Iarlborough for gal- 
lantry at the decisive battle of Blenheim. With the order of 
Knighthood he also received the patent which bears his name 
and which comprised a considerable portion of what now con- 
stitutes the counties of Ulster, Delaware and Sullivan in the 
state of New York. 

In signing his name. Johannes Hardenbergh sometimes 
sini]ily signed "Hardenberg" as was the custom with those in 
England who held titles. 

The Hardenbergh family is of German origin and the ruins 
of the Hardenbergh castle arc still pointed out near Nordheim, 
in Germany. Gerrit jans Hardenbergh, the progenitor of the 
family in Ulster county, came to America with his father from 
Maarden, near Utrecht, in the Xetherlanils. He first appears 
on record at .Mbany in 1667. His wife was Jeapie Schejimoes. 
Their son Johannes became an owner of real estate in the vil- 
lage rif Kingston in K)^^^, was commissioned high sheriff of 



45'' inSTORV or XEll- PALTZ 

I'lstiT county by ( iov. Leislor in i^x^o, and aiiain l)y Gov. 
Lovelace in 1709. He was commissioned as major in the 
Ulster county regiment in 1728. and was afterwards a colonel 
in the same regiment. He was one of the patentees in the great 
or Hardenbergh Patent. b\ which an immense tract, estimated 
at 2.000.000 acres in the present counties of Ulster. Orange, 
Greene, Delaware, and Sullivan was granted by Queen Ann in 
1708. There was considerable dissatisfaction among the In- 
dians for a long term of years at the granting of so large a 
tract, but they became satisfied on the ])aynient of an additional 
sum. 

By his wife. Catharine Rutzen. he had a large family of sons 
and daughters. Two of the sons married Xew Paltz women 
and settled within tlie bounds of the Xew Paltz congregation, 
although but one of them. Abraham, lived in the Xew Paltz 
precinct, his home being at Guilford. The brother Johannes 
lived at what is now Rosendale village. ( )ther members of the 
family located elsewhere. 

Abraham, who was born in 170^.'). married Marytje Roosa, 
daughter of Xicholas Ro<:)sa. who had moved from Hurley to 
Xew Paltz. After her death he married, in 1752. Mary, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Hasbrouck of Guilford and widow of James 
Gasherie. Abraham Hardenbergh's house was built on the 
W'allkill, a short distance below Tuthill and commanded a fine 
view of the stream. A very large tract of land in this vicinity 
had been granted to Jacob Rutzen, the father of Abraham's 
mother. The ])ortion of the tract on which the house stood 
descended in the Hardenbergh family for several generations 
to Mrs. Crines Jenkins. The old stone house has now tumbled 
into ruins. The land is t>wned by Josiah LeFevre. 

.\braiiam Hardenbergh was a man of wealth and inlluence. 
He was Supervisor of the town of Xew Paltz from 1751 to 



HISTORY or Mill' PALTZ 457 

1 761 and again in 1770. He was <»no of the Justices of tlie 
Peace of the county in 17^)6. In the hst of slave-holders in 
1755 he is set down as the owner of seven slaves, a number 
only equalled by one other resilient of the town, Solomon Du- 
Bois. who likewise owned seven slaves. In the tax list of 1765 
Abraham's name appears as Supervisor, and the amount of his 
assessment is exceeded only by that of Col. Abraham Has- 
brouck, of Kingston, for his (iuilford farm, and by Josiah Pel- 
ting" of the village. In 1759 he was an elder in the church. 

The children of Abraham Hardenbergh by his first wife were 
Johannes, bajJtized at Kingston in 1743. and Sarah, also bap- 
tized at Kingston. The children l)y the second wife were 
Nicholas. Elias. Maritje and Rachel, all baptized at New Paltz 
from 1753 to 1758. Abraham died 1771. His name does not 
appear on the subscription for the erection of the second stone 
church in 1771. but the names of his w^idow and son John A. 
appear. 

From Abraham Hardenbergh the farm at Guilford passed to 
his eldest son. Johannes, who wrote his name John A. Elias 
married and had his residence somewhere within the congre- 
gation, as we find his name on the church book. Where the 
other children lived we do not know. John A. was a captain in 
the patriot army in the Revolutionary war. serving in the Third 
Ulster County Regiment, John Cantine, colonel. His name 
also appears as lieutenant iti the Fourth Lister County Regi- 
ment, of which his cousin. Johannes llardenberg of Swarte- 
kill. was colonel a i)arl of the time. His wife was Rachel, 
daughter of his neighbor, Hendricus DuBois. 

The children of John .\. Hardenbergh and his wife, Rachel 
Dul'.ois, were Marichie. born in 1771: Jacob, born in 178c"); 
Charles, born in 1782; Alexander, born in 1784. and Abraham. 
born in 1777. The last named built on the ancestral estate the 



458 HISTORY OF XEIV PALTZ 

fine old brick house, near the < luilford church. \ow^ unoccupied 
and now coniniencin^^ to tumble into ruins. Abraham, who 
wrote his name Abraham J., married Margaret DuBois and his 
brother Jacob married Jane DuBois. both of whom were daugh- 
ters of Cornelius DuBois, Jr., of Poughwoughtenonk. 

It is related that the i)arents wanted the last named young 
woman to marry another young man and that she jumped out 
of a window and then ran away from home in her every-day 
dress to marry the man of her choice. Her husband died 
young. Alexander became a doctor. He died from an acci- 
dent, his neck being broken by a fall from his horse, which 
stumbled over a log. Jacob left one son. Jacob, and one daugh- 
ter, who married Crines Jenkins. 

The brother Charles became a minister, was settled at War- 
wick. X. Y., Bedminster. X. J., and was a colleague of Rev. 
Dr. Thomas Dewitt in the collegiate churches in Xew York. 
He was one of the trustees of Rutgers College. 

Abraham J. Hardenbergh. who built the brick house, was a 
member of the Legislature in 1813. In the war of 1812 he 
was a colonel of militia and was able to get part of his men 
across the Xiagara river, which was more than some others 
did. when the invasion of Canada was made. 

It is a striking illustration of the lack of all interest in an 
honorable military career that was felt in the days of our grand- 
fathers, that Abm. J. Hardenbergh subsequently had two 
butcher knives made out of the sword that he carried in the 
war of 1 81 2. What a contrast with the feeling of pride, with 
which the people of to-day look upon the military record of 
their ancestors ! 

The sons of Abm. J. Hardenbergh and his wife, Margaret 
DuBois, were Charles. Davifl. Josiah and Ditmas. There was 
only one daughter, (iertrude, who married Aldert Schoonmaker 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



459 




HOUSE OF COL. ALIKAIIAM 1 [ AKDENIJERGII AT GLILFUkD 



46o HISTORY OF X EW PALTZ 

and lived in this villagjc. The son Charles became a doctor 
and settled at Port [ervis ; Uavid went to Michij^^an ; Ditmas 
located at Ellenville ; Josiah settled on the farm of his father 
at Pecanisink in Shawan^inik and there his father likewise 
lived in his latter days. 

Col. T(>n.\x.\K.>^ H.\RDi:.\ni:u(;n of Rosend.nle 

Going' back now to Col. Johannes Hardenbergh we shall 
make but brief mention of his family, because he did not live 
within the precinct of New Paltz, although included in the 
congregation of the New Paltz church. 

Johannes Hardenbergh, of Rosendale, was Colonel of the 
First Regiment of Ulster County Militia, for twenty years, 
was a member of the Colonial Assembly from 1743 to 1750, 
and of the State Legislature in 1781 and 1782, and he was a 
member of the First Provincial Congress. He repeatedly 
served as an elder in the New Paltz church, acting in that 
capacity as a delegate to the Conference in Xew York, when 
the differences between the Ccetus and Conferentie parties 
were harmonized. 

A few years before his death, wiien General Washington, 
in June, 1783. visited the county of Ulster, Colonel Harden- 
bergh entertained the General and Mrs. Washington, with 
Governor and Mrs. Clinton, at his residence in Rosendale. 

The wife of Col. Johannes Hardenbergh. of Rosendale. was 
Maria DuBois. who was born in 1706 and was the daughter of 
Louis DuBois. Jr.. of Xescatack, in the town of Xew Paltz. 
Their children were: Johannes, born in 1729: Lewis, born in 
1 73 1, married Catharine Waldron : Charles, Ixtrn in 1733, 
married Catharine Smedes ; Jacob Rutzc. born in 1736. mar- 
ried Dina \'anl>ergh. widow of Rev. John Frelinghuysen ; 



HISTORY OF XEir F A LT Z 461 

Rachel, born in 1739. married Rev. Hermans M\er. D. D. ; 
Catharine, born in 1741 ; Gerardus, born in 1744. married 
Nancy Ryerson. 

Jacob- Rutze Hardenbergh became a minister of the gospel, 
settled first in Xew Jersey and afterwards over the churches 
at Marbletown. Rochester and Wawarsing. He was the first 
president of Queens, now Rutgers College. 

Johannes Hardenbergh, Jr., eldest son of Col. Johannes Har- 
denbergh of Rosendale, located at Swartekill, a short distance 
north of Rifton. His house we believe is still standing a short 
distance east of the highway. His wife was Mary LeFevre, 
daughter of Isaac LeFevre of Bontecoe. 

In the Revolutionary war he served a great portion of the 
time as lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Ulster County Regiment, 
of which Jonathan Hasbrouck of Newburgh was colonel. On 
account of the ill health of the colonel the regiment was a con- 
siderable portion of the time under the command of the lieu- 
tenant-colonel. In 1779 he received his commission as colonel. 

Sojourner Truth, the famous negro woman, who acquired a 
great reputation as a public speaker and died in Chicago about 
1870, after having long passed the century mark, was in her 
early days a slave in the family of Colonel Hardenbergh at 
Swartekill and related that she and a number of sheep were 
once sold for $100. 

There was a standing dispute between New Paltz people 
and the Hardenberghs as to the boundary line of the respective 
patents. The Hardenberghs at Swartekill claimed the land up 
to about where Perrine's Bridge is located. The Paltz people 
claimed that the surveyor had been bribed by the present of a 
cow to run a false line and that the Paltz Patent really included 
the valuable water privilege at Dashville Falls. But the Har- 
denberghs retained Dashville l-"alls till about 18 10. when the 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 







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/ . /, s- t. ^ ^ 

The orijriiml of this inaii in In the town clcrkV office at New Pultz. It was niadi- in 170B, 
one year after the (jrant of the Hardenbi-nih ratent 

Tlie bendi* In the Wallkill are not laiil down accurately on the niiip and prohably the 
annle in thr north line of the Patent in what llie Ni'W I'ahz jwople denouncc(l a- the run- 
ning of a fal^ie hne to K've the Ilardenbcr^.'hc' the water privllepc at Dashville Failf, the 
surveyor havini; Ix'en bribed, vt» tlie New Paltz [K-ople claimed, by the present of a cow. 



HISTORY OF NliW PALTZ 463 

privilege was purchased by Peter LeFevre of JJontecoe of his 
uncle, Johannes Hardenbergh, Jr. Peter LeFevre proceeded 
with his brother-in-law, Ezekiel Eltinge, to build the mill torn 
down a short time ago. Some time previous the Hardenberghs 
had built a mill at Swartekill. which was one of the first in 
this county. The sons of Johannes Hardenbergh, Jr., of 
Swartekill, and Mary LeFevre, his wife, were Issac. Peter, 
Charles and Louis. Peter moved to Pennsylvania, Isaac went 
to Catskill, where he became a merchant and was a prominent 
man. Charles resided in the neighborhood. He is the ancestor 
of the late Benj. F. Hardenbergh of Rock Lock. Louis was 
a blacksmith by trade. He lived part of the time on the paternal 
estate at Swartekill. Afterwards he had a shop at Bontecoe 
north of the lane leading to the old house of Simon LeFevre. 
Louis had three sons, Richard, Simon and John. Richard is 
well remembered by the old men of the present generation. He 
resided for a time at New Paltz and was the father of Hon. 
Jacob Hardenbergh and of Louis Hardenbergh of Gardiner, 
who until his death, two or three years ago. occupied the farm 
purchased by his father about 1830. 



464 HISTORY or XEir FALTZ 



CHAPTER XXW'II 
The Wurts Family 

The Wurts family is of Swiss origin. The ancestor of the 
family at New Paltz was Georjjje W'irtz. M. D.. who was the 
first physician in the place. He was a near relative of the 
Goetschius family, which was likewise of Swiss blood, three of 
whose members served the Xew Paltz church, acceptably in 
the early days, the first as a supply and the others as reg^ularly 
ordained pastors. Maurities Goetschius, the second of the name 
to occupy the pulpit at Xew Paltz, served the people here as a 
physician, as well as pastor, and was known as the "doctor 
dominie."' Dr. George W'irtz's name first appears on the Xew 
Paltz records in 1773. when he married Esther, daughter of 
Major Jacob Hasbrouck. Rev. Stephen Goetschius succeeded 
his uncle. Rev. Maurities Goetschius. as pastor of the church 
in 1775. Dr. W'irtz was i»n the ground at the time of the 
arrival of the new pastor, who was his cousin, and may have 
come before the death of his uncle, the "doctor-dominie," which 
occurred in 1771. He united with the church at the village of 
Xew Paltz in 1776 by certificate from the church at Shawan- 
gunk. It seems certain, therefore, that he must have lived at 
Shawangunk at least a short time before coming to Xew Paltz. 
His uncle had his home at Shawangunk and preached there, as 
well as at Xew Paltz. 

Dr. Wirtz was doubtless a busy man. with a large territory 
to travel over in visiting patients. So when he thought of 
selecting a partner for life he could not si)end much time in 
courtship. The story, as we have heard it related, is that he 



HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 465 

made his proposal of marriage withom preliminary and com- 
pleted it with the statement that if it was accepted he would 
take tea with the family. The proposal met with an affirmative 
response and the young doctor took tea with the family in the 
old steep-roofed house, now the "Xew Paltz Memorial House," 
in which they resided. 

Dr. W'irtz built as his residence the house at the foot of Main 
street, torn down about 1880. the site of which is now occupied 
by the Riverside Cottage. His name appears as one of the 
signers of the Articles of Association at the outbreak of the 
Revolutionary war. He was a deacon in the church in 1776 
and an elder in 1797. 

The children of Dr. George W'irtz and his wife, Esther Has- 
brouck, were Jacob (born in 1776), Janetje. Catharine. Mauri- 
tius (born in 1784). 

Dr. \\'irtz died in 1802. The tombstones in the old grave- 
yard marking the last resting place of himself and wife bear 
these inscriptions : 

In memory of George \\'irtz. M. D., who departed this life 
April 20, 1802, aged 55 'years. 5 months and 6 days : 

In memory of Esther Hasbrouck. daughter of ]\Iaj. Jacob 
Hasbrouck and relict of doctor George \\'irtz. who died June 
4th. 1826, aged (38 years, 4 months and 26 days. 

The sons. Jacob and Maurities, both became doctors. The 
first named married Catharine DuBois. During his long life 
he attended to the duties of his profession as a physician, riding 
about the country on horseliack. according to the custom of 
those days, to visit his patients. He lived in the house which 
his father built until in middle age. when he built and moved 
into the house in the southern part of our village where his 
son Cornelius afterward lived. 

The children of Dr. Jacob Wurtz and his wife. Catharine 

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466 HISTORY U I- XEll' PALTZ 

DuBois, were George, born in 1798; Gertrude, born in 1803; 
Mathusalem. born in 1806; Gitty Jane, born in 1809; David, 
born in 1812; Maurice, born in 1815. By his second wife. 
Mary Hornbeck, Dr. Jacob Wurts had one son. Cornelius. 

Maurities (in Englisli Maurice), the younger son of Dr. 
George Wirtz. engaged in the practice of medicine. Uving for a 
while in Esopus and likewise for a time at Springtown, on the 
farm where his son-in-law, Gilbert Kiting, afterwards lived. 
His wife was Maria Jansen. He died in middle age. leaving 
two sons. John H. and Jansen. and two daughters, one of whom 
married Gilbert Elting'and the other Nathaniel Eiting. 



HISTORY OF \'E\V PALTZ 467 



CHAPTER XXXVIII 

Old Dutch Families at New Paltz and \'icixitv 

The Dutch famiUes residing at New Paltz and vicinity pre- 
vious to the Revolution for a greater or less length of time 
include tlie Eltings. the Lows, the Roses, the Clearwaters, the 
\'an Wagenens, the Ostranders of Plattekill and the Eans. 

The Dutch element was always quite small at New Paltz. 

None of the Dutch families who located in New Paltz be- 
came permanent settlers here except the Eltings, the \'an Wage- 
nens and the Eans, though the Lows remained through several 
generations. 

There is this difficulty in tracing the ancestry of Dutch fami- 
lies : that is while the Huguenots all had surnames when they 
came to I'Ister county nearly all the Dutch are first recorded 
on the church book by their Christian names alone, although 
some of them had surnames used in legal documents. The 
Jansens are descended from Jan Mattys, the Lows from Peter 
Cornelis. the Clearwaters from Tunis Jacobse, the Roses from 
Albert Hymans. the Van Wagenens from Aaert Jacobson. who 
was the son of Jacob Geritson. The Ostranders took the name 
from "east strand," where the ancestor of the family lived. 
The name Ean simply means "one." Where it is recorded in 
the church book by a French minister it is written "un" and 
when bv a Dutch minister Ein or Een. 



468 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 



CHAPTER XXXIX 

The Lttw Family at New Paltz 

The ancestor of the Low family in Ulster county is Peter 
Cornelius, who sailed from Holstein in 1659. He married 
Elizabeth Blanshan, daughter of Matthew Blanshan and sister 
of the wife of Louis DuBois, the New Paltz Patentee, at Kings- 
ton in 1668. His name was entered on the church record 
simply as Peter Cornelis, the surname of Low not yet having 
been adopted. His sons were ^latthew, Peter, Cornelius, 
Jacob, born in 1683; Johannis and Abraham, born in 1688. 
Peter and Cornelius received land grants in Shawangunk and 
W'awarsing. 

Matthew married Jannetje Van Harring. His two sons, 
Peter, born in 1700, and Johannes, born in 1706, located in New 
Paltz. Peter married Catharine, daughter of Solomon DuBois 
of Paughwaughtanonk. in New Paltz, in 1722. and his name 
on the marriage register is set down as residing at New Paltz. 
He quite certainly lived on the southern part of the land of his 
father-in-law at Paughwaughtanonk and his descendants after- 
wards lived there for many years. 

The name of Peter Low appears as a freeholder in New 
Paltz in 1728 and again on the tax list of 1765 as still living 
in the Paughwaugtanonk neighborhood. His sons were Jona- 
than, born in 1724; Solomon, born in 1725 (located at Spring- 
town j, and Isaac, born in 1730. who lived where his father had 
lived. When the Conferentia church was organized, in 1767, 
Peter Low and his two sons, Solomon and Isaac, united with it. 
The Low family long had a blacksmith shop at Paughwaugh- 



HISTORY OF NEW P ALT Z 469 

tanonk and the name is found on one or more tombstones in 
the burying-ground near where tlie blacksmith shop stood on 
the farm now occupied by LeFevre DuBois on the County 
House Plains. 

Johannes, the brother of Peter, sometimes wrote his name 
Johannes M. and sometimes Johannes, Jr. He located in New 
Paltz village, married, about 1735. Rebecca, daughter of Hugo 
Freer, Senior, and after his father-in-law's death occupied his 
house, the northernmost of the old stone houses, still standing 
on Huguenot street in this village, and here his descendants 
lived for many years. 

The children of Johannes M. Low and Rebecca Freer were 
Johannes, born in 1736; Maria, born in 1738 (married Roelif 
J. Kiting) ; Jacob, born in 1743; Lena, born in 1745; Simeon, 
bom in 1747. Johannes M. Low still occupied the homestead 
in 1765. After his death it passed into the possession of his 
son Simeon, who married Christina McMullen. The children 
were Ezekiel. born in 1777, David, Janitje, Maria, Jacob and 
Samuel. All of the Low family at New Paltz finally died out 
or moved away. 



470 II/STORY OF XEll PALTZ 



CHAPTER XL 

The Klaarwater (Clearwater) Family 

The Klaarwaters were one of the most ancient famiUes in 
Holland. For centuries they owned and to this day own es- 
tates at Baarn, near Rotterdam. Its members were among the 
founders of the Dutch Republic, and achieved distinction in 
the wars of Holland. 

Theunis Jacobsen Klaarwater, the founder of the Clearwater 
family in America, was born at Baani in 1624. He was a sol- 
dier of Holland and a graduate of the University of Leyden. 
He came from Holland to Niew Amsterdam, went to Esopus 
(Kingston) and subsequently to Bontecoe. 

In the year 1709 Queen Anne granted to him, to his son, 
Jacob Klaarwater, his brother-in-law, Hendrick Vemooy, his 
son's father-in-law, Abraham Doiau (Deyo), Rip Van Dam, 
Adolph Phillipse, Dr. Gerardus Beekman and Colonel Wil- 
liam Peartree a patent of 4,000 acres of land in this 
county. 

The patent is recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, 
in Book 7 of patents, at page 54, and embraces that tract in 
the present town of Shawangunk bounded by the Wallkill on 
the east, the Dwaarskill on the south and the Shawangunkkill 
on the west. 

Theunis Jacobsen was one of the founders of the Reformed 
Protestant Dutch church at Kingston, commonly known as the 
First Dutch. He was chosen by the citizens of Kingston 
commissioner to present to the British Crown their protest 



HISTORY 01- XEir PALTZ 471 

aj;ain;^t the arrogant and illegal conduct of the com- 
mandant of the English garrison stationed at Kingston under 
the English rule, a duty discharged with ahility and 
dignity. 

After his removal to Bontecoe he joined the Huguenot church 
at New Paltz. His son Jacob, who was born in Holland, mar- 
ried Marie, daughter of Abraham Doiau (Deyo), one of the 
patentees. He was the first Dutcliman to marry a daughter 
of one of the Xew Paltz Patentees. 

Theunis Jacobsen and Jacob were among the freeholders of 
the New Paltz Patent whose names appear upon the oldest tax 
list of the Patent now extant, that of 1712, which is preserved 
among the archives of the Memorial House. 

Theunis Jacobson died in 171 5 and was buried in the orchard 
of his farm at Bontecoe, which is still owned by one of his 
descendants. 

A tablet, designed by Charles R. Lamb, the architect of the 
Dewey Arch, was erected on the anniversary of the Battle of 
Lexington, 1899, in the Dutch church at Kingston to his 
memory, and that of some of his lineal descendants by 
Judge Clearwater of Kingston, his descendant six degrees 
removed. 

The tablet is of white marble, framed by Corinthian pilasters, 
with capitals and frieze supported by heavy corbels. Upon 
the frieze is a scroll, on which is carved a i)air of crossed 
swords on the model of those used by the officers of the con- 
tinental army, intertwined with oak leaves, the symbol of 
strength and heroism, surmounted by the words "Li Me- 
moriam." At the base of the tablet is the inscription. "Fide 
Et Fortitudine," intertwined with ivy leaves, the symbol of 
remembrance and longevity. Each capital is crowned with a 
scallop shell, the emblem of the Pilgrim. The inscription is 



472 HISTORY () /• .\ L\\ I'. I L 1 Z 

of bronze letters executed in high relief, and is as fol- 
lows : 

1624 THEUXIS JACOBSEX KLAARWATER 1713 
\\'hose ancestors were anion<; the founders of the 

DUTCH REPUBLIC. 

A soldier of Holland. 

An early settler of Ulster County. 

1663 JACOB KLAARWATER. 1747 

A native of Holland who fouijht in the wars of the 

American frontier. 

1699 ABRAHAM KLAARWATER 1782 

Sergeant in the provincial army during the 

Colonial Wars. 

Signer of the Articles of Association 1775. 

Dragoon in the Marbletown Troop of Horse during the 

war of the Revolution. 

1757 THOMAS KLAARWATER 1830 

Signer of the Articles of Association 1775. 

Trooper in the Marbletown Horse. 

Soldier in the Continental Army. 

1787 THOMAS TEUXIS CLEARWATER 18O0 

Soldier of the War of 181 j. 

The bronze is made of old cannon captured in battle during 
the American war>. The marble is from American t|uarrie>. 

The tablet is placed in the west wall of the church and is a 
fine addition to the beautiful iiUerior of that stately e<lihce. 

Among the descendants of Theunis jacobsen who will be 
recalled bv the readers of this volume are the Honorable Hiram 



HISTORV OF XEir FALTZ 473 

Clearwater, who for many years was the president of the iJoard 
of Education and the president of the Board of Water Com- 
missioners of the city of Cincinnati ; the Reverend Charles 
Knapp Clearwater, now pastor of the old Reformed Protestant 
Dutch church of Newton, L. I. ; Charles Hiram Clearwater, 
one of the pioueer ipanufacturers of Rosendale cement in this 
county ; Colonel Alfred Clearwater, one of the leading citi- 
zens of Northern Pennsylvania, and the Honorable Alphonso 
Trumpbour Clearwater, LL. D., who three times has been Dis- 
trict Attorney and twice County Judge of Ulster county, and 
afterwards Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
York. During the two hundred and forty years the family has 
been settled here its members have intermarried with many of 
the old Dutch and Huguenot county families, and those inter- 
ested in tracing their descent from its foimder should consult 
among other family genealogies, those of Beekman, Burger, 
Davis. DePew. DeWitt, Deyo, DuBois. Elmendorf, Freer, 
Helm. Houghtaling. Hoffman, Kortright, Schoonmaker, Ter- 
williger. Trumpbour. ^'an Eeuven. ^'an \\'agenen. \'ernooy. 
W^ood. 



474 HISTORY Of XEir P A LT Z 



CHAPTER XLl 

The Eax Family at New Paltz 

The Ean family was tlie tirst of Dutch extraction to settle 
at New Paltz and remain here permanently. The Ean family 
is unique in another respect : from generation to generation 
there have been few boys in the family. Consequently the 
Ean name has increased but slowly. The first at New Paltz 
was Elias Eign (sjielled by the French Un or Yn), who mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Anthoinc Crespel, the Patentee. 
Another daughter of Anthoine Crespel. the Patentee, named 
Maria (or Maria Maddaleen). also settled at New Paltz and 
also married a Dutchman, Mattys C. Sleght. We have very 
little knowledge of Sleght or his children, although as late as 
1724 we find the name of Mattys Sleght, Jun., signed to the 
agreement of the 24 proprietors of the Patent at that time, 
authorizing the Duzine to give title to land. The Sleght 
family certainly did not long remain at New Paltz. Ean and 
his descendants always remained here. In the tax list of 1712 
he is assessed £35. In 1718 his name appears as the only per- 
son, not of the Patentees' families, who assisted in building the 
first stone church. In the agreement of the 24 proprietors in 
1724, authorizing the Duzine to give title to land, appear the 
names of Jan Een. Elizabeth Ecu. Sarah Een and Maria Mad- 
daleen Fen. These were und<'ul)te<lly the widow and children 
of Elias. We have no means of determining whether he lived 
always in the village or moved in his later years to the home- 
stead at Rontecoe. where his descendants have lived ever since. 
In the tax list of 172S tlie property is assessed to "Elias Ean's 



HISTORY OF NEir PALTZ 



\7S 




RUINS OF THE EAN HOUSE AT BONTECOE 



476 IIISTORV UI- XEW PALTZ 

widow" at £20. Her father. Anthony Crespel. always re- 
mained at Hurley, and in 1693 he sold a plot of land in this 
village, probably the lot assitjiied to him for a home to Hugo 
Freer, Sen., as is shown by the original deed, in the possession 
of the writer. 

Jan Ean. son of Elias, married, in 1735, Geesje Roosa. In 
the marriage record, recorded in the church book at Kingston, 
the bride is set down as being from Marbletown and the groom 
as born at Hurley and residing "at Mond- Albany, in the juris- 
diction of Paltz." The clerk who made the record undoubtedly 
misunderstood the name of the locality and should have written 
Bontecoe. where, on the farm about 3!s miles north of the 
village, Jan Ean lived and died and his grave is pointed out 
till the present day. and on this farm his descendants still live. 

The children of Jan Ean were Elizabeth, Margaret, Elias, 
Abraham (born in 1741) and Isaac. We have no account of 
these sons except Abraham. The others probably died in in- 
fancy or boyhood. In the old stone house, which has lately 
tumbled into ruins, on a stone beside the front door appear the 
initials A. E. and J. E., showing that Jan Ean and his son 
Abraham together built the house. About two miles down the 
W'allkill a lot of about ten acres of fertile lowland in one of the 
great bends of the stream belonged to the Eans as early as 
1730, as shown by a paper in possession of the writer. It is 
called the Half Moon in this paper and retains that name until 
the present day. It was owned by the Eans until about 1880. 
Jan Ean died before 1755 and in that year Geesje Ean. widow 
of Jan. is set down in the list of slave-t)wners in the town. In 
a map of the Patent, made in 1760 by Louis Bevier. the house 
of Geesje Ean is the only one set down. She was a woman of 
note in the community and is still remembered by the Le- 
Fcvres. who owned the adjoining farm, tor her help to the sick. 



H/STORV OF Miir I'ALTZ 477 

Abraham Ean came next in possession of the farm. In 1765 
Abraham was married, at Kingston, to Catharine \'an Wage- 
nen, who was born at Hurley and resided at Wagondahl (Creek 
Locks) at the time of the marriage, as stated in the record on 
the church book. In the division in the church between the 
Ccctus and Conferentia parties Abraham seems to have sided 
with the latter party and his mother with the Coetus, as Abra- 
ham's name appears as one of the subscribers to the Confer- 
entia church then built, and in 1772 his mother's name appears 
as a contributor to the building of the second church in our 
village. 

In the Revolutionary War Aliraham Ean served on the fron- 
tier as a member of Capt. Abraham Deyo's company, Third 
Ulster County Regiment. 

The children of Abraham Ean and Catharine \'an Wagenen. 
his wife, were Elias (born in 1768), Annetje, Rachel, Catha- 
rine and Peter (born in 1781 ). The three daughters all mar- 
ried and located directly across the \\'allkill in the Springtown 
neighborhood. Rachel married David Deyo (grandfather of 
Rev. Paul T. ). Catharine married Jonathan Deyo (grand- 
father of James E.). Annetje married Benjamin Hasbrouck. 
Peter, who was the younger son, occupied the farm during his 
long life. He married Maria Freer. From Peter the farm 
descended to Abraham Ean, who was an only son, and occu- 
pied the farm during his lifetime. 

Going back now to Elias, son of Abraham, we find that he 
married Elizabeth Hasbrouck of Springtown. He built the 
stone house at Middletown. which passed to his son. Elias. Jun.. 
and iu the next generation to James Ean. This house, still 
standing with its gable end to the road, bears, deeply cut in a 
stone in the southwest corner of the building, the date of erec- 
tion. 1789, and the initials of the builders. E. E. (Elias Ean) 



478 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

and R. M. B. ( Roelif Hasbrouck). A peculiarity of this old 
house was that the stone oven, instead of being incorporated in 
the building as in otiier stone houses was built on a rock across 
the street, where it stood until modern times. Elias Ean was 
for a number of years an officer in the church and was a much 
respected man. His sons were Elias. who occupied the farm 
after his father's death, and Jacobus, who spent his days in the 
Middletown neighborhood. A daughter. Elizabeth, born in 

1807, married Snyder. She lived to the extraordinary 

age of 95 years. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 479 

CHAPTER XLII 

The \'an Wagexex Familv at Xew Paltz 

The first \'an W'agenen at New Paltz was Petrus Van Wage- 
nen, whose father Archa resided at Creek Locks (called by the 
old people Wagondahl) in a house near the residence of the 
late Washington LeFevre. 

Petrus married, at Kingston, June 15, 1760, Sarah Low, 
daughter of Simeon Low of New Paltz village. In the mar- 
riage record on the church book Petrus is set down as residing 
at Wagondale and his wife as residing at New Paltz. They 
probably took up their residence at New Paltz immediately after 
the marriage. Petrus' house, one mile northeast of the village, 
is still standing, but has not been occupied for many years. 
Part of the eastern wall has tumbled down. It is the most 
picturesque ruin anywhere in the vicinity of New Paltz. and 
the artist's brush of Mr. A. Scott Cox has placed it on can- 
vass in a very attractive manner. It stands in a field about 
half a mile northwest of Put Corners. 

In the tax list of 1765 Petrus is assessed £8 los. In 1767 
he, with other New Paltz people of Dutch descent transferred 
his membership from the church at Kingston to the newly- 
organized Conferentia church at New Paltz, which had just 
erected a house of worship about two miles from the village on 
the west side of the Wallkill. Petrus lived to the extraordi- 
nary age of 92 years. He was by trade a stone mason. His 
name appears as one of the enlisted men in the Third Ulster 
County Regiment in the Revolutionary war. 

Petrus and his wife had a large family of children. The fol- 
lowing arc recorded on the church bo«M< at Kingston as being 



48o HISTORY Of XEW PALTZ 

baptized from 1761 to 1766: Jonathan, Daniel, Ezekiel. Levi. 
The following are recorded on the church book at New Paltz 
as being baptized from 1766 to 1778: Catharine, Lucas, Maria, 
Aert ( in English Archa ) and Sarah. 

In the Revolutionary war Daniel and Levi served in the 
stockade at Wawarsing and Daniel was in the stockade when 
it was attacked by Tories and Indians. Daniel left three sons, 
all of whom went west. Archa wrote his name Archa P. 
He married, in 1800. Maria Freer. They lived for a time in 
the old homestead and for a time on what is now the Abner 
DuBois farm at Middletown. Archa P. served in the war of 
1 81 2 in the 92d Regiment. Heavy Artillery. He was on Lake 
Ontario and in the fight at Lake Mills in Canada. He re- 
ceived 160 acres of land for his services in war. but it was 
afterwards sold for taxes. Archa V. left two sons. Jonas, 
who resided at Plutarch, and Alexander; also one daughter. 
Magdalen, who married Jacob Bedford. 

Lucas Van Wagenen, son of Petrus, married Cornelia Mar- 
kle. Tluy lived in the house still standing just south of the 
present church-yard ; at least Mrs. Van Wagenen lived there 
after her husband's death, which occurred in 181 1, at the age of 
41. The children of Lucas and Cornelia Van Wagenen were 
Benjamin, born in 1796; Jonathan, born in 1798; Janetje, bom 
in 1800; Maria, born in 1803. We have no account of any of 
these children except Benjamin and one daughter, who mar- 
ried James Mitchell of Shawangunk. Benjamin married Cath- 
arine, daughter of Judge Jonathan DuBois of Springtown. 
They lived in the ])uilding now tlu- Huguenot bank. Benjamin 
\'an Wagenen was a very prominent citizen of our village in 
his dav. There was no lawyer in Xew Paltz until long after 
that time and the legal business required in the place was done 
by Benj. \'an. W^agenen. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 481 



CHAPTER XLIII 

The Eltinge Family in New Paltz 

The following" account of the Eltinge family so far as it 
relates to Jan. the original Eltinge in Ulster county, was de- 
rived mainly from the researches of Jonathan \V. Hasbrouck 
and is given in his words : 

Jan Elten. the ancestor of all the Eltinges in Ulster county, 
was born in Holland, at Beyle, a dependency of Switchsaelen, 
in the province of Drenthe. on the 29th day of July (old style) 
1632. He was the son of Roelif and Aeltje Eltcn and known 
to be of a numerous and respectable family. The first mention 
I find on record concerning him I find in one of the volumes 
of the Transactions of the Dutch, at Albany, in a commission, 
issued Sept. 6, 1665, by authority of E. Andross, Governor, 
constituting and appointing Capt. Thomas Chambers to be a 
justice of the peace for Kingston. Hurley and Marbletown and 
dependencies in Esopus and also for him and George Hall, 
the sheriff. Cornelius Slecht, W. Nottingham, John Elten (or 
Jan Eltinge ) and John Rriggs, or any four or more of them to 
hold a court of sessions twice a year at Kingston, to hear and 
determine all appeals and causes, as a court of sessions, accord- 
ing to law. He must therefore have emigrated from Holland 
a considerable time prior to that date. In 1680 a certificate, 
signed by the church officers at Beyle was executed for his 
benefit, in which he is commended by them to the favorable 
regard of all to whose knowledge its contents should be made 
known. This must have been sent to him years after his 
residence here. 



482 HISTORY OF Mill' PALTZ 

Being- associated, as above, with Cornelius Slecht, one of 
the first settlers of Esopus. he doubtless became intimate with 
him and his family, thus forming an acquaintance with Cor- 
nelius' daughter Jacomyntje, whom he married about the year 
1677. The mother of Jacomyntje was Tryntje Tynebrouck. 
Jacomyntje had had a previous husband, by whom she had 
four children, one of whom named Tryntje married Solomon 
DuBois of New Paltz. Jan Elten took out a patent for land in 

Hurley in . Jan Eltinge and his wife Jacomyntje had 

five children, as follows: Roelif. baptized in 1678, who settled 
in New Paltz and married Sarah DuBois; Cornelius, baptized 
in 1681. who settled in Marbletown and married Rebecca \'an 
Aletten ; William, who settled in Kingston and married Jane 
LeSaeur- Greitje, married Thos. \\'all of Somerset county, 
N. J., and Aaltje. who married Garret Aertson of Kingston, 
son of Aert Jacobson, son of Jacob Gerritsen. Notice peculiar 
changes of names from one generation to another. Gerrit had 
a brother Jacob. The children of both are called \'an Wag- 
gennegar or \'an Wegener. ' 

Jan Eltinge signed the treaty niadc by the Paltz Huguenots 
and the Indians, in the spring of 1677, as one of the witnesses. 
On the 8th of June, 1686, Jan Eltinge and Gerrit Aertson, his 
son-in-law, and Arien Post bought a lot of land at Rhincbeck ; 
"Right over against the Rondoui Creek" by a small creek 
called Quaawanoss. This is now the home of Hon. Levi P. 
Morton. The price paid for the land was 6 suits of stremuater 
(a kind of coarse cloth). 6 duflfels. 4 blankets, 5 kettles, 4 guns, 
5 hoes, 5 axes, 10 cases powder, 10 bars of lead, 8 sheets, 8 
pairs stockings. 40 fathoms wampum. 2 drawing knives, two 
adzes, ten knives, half an anker i)f rum (anker is ten gallons) 
and one frying pan. 



HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 483 

RoELiF THE First Eltinge at New Paltz 

Roelif, the eldest son of Jan Eltinge, was baptized October 
27, 1678, and married, in 1703, Sarah, daughter of Abm. Du- 
Bois, the Patentee, who was the son of Louis DuBois, the 
Patentee. He settled at New Paltz about 1720. We have 
reason to believe that Roelif lived for several years on Hugue- 
not street in this village, in a house which stood a short dis- 
tance south of the old stone house of Isaiah Hasbrouck and 
was torn down in 1800. In his later days he located a short 
distance outside the south bounds of the Paltz patent, where 
Edmund Eltinge resided, on a portion of a patent of land, 
lying on both sides of the Wallkill. granted to the Patentee, 
Louis DuBois, and by him conveyed to his sons. Solomon and 
Louis, Jr., both of whom settled on a part of this tract lying 
on the west side of the Wallkill. The deed from Solomon 
and Louis DuRois to Roelif Eltinge was in the possession of 
Edmund Eltinge and is dated February 4, 1/26-/. (The last 
two figures are written in a fractional form, customary in those 
days, to indicate the difference of old and new style.) Geo. 
\'an Wagoner is one of the witnesses of this deed. On this 
tract, a short distance south of Edmund Eltinge's residence, 
Roelif built a stone house and here ended his days. This 
house was burned about 1820. Some of the stones of the old 
house are in the kitchen walls of the present residence. One 
of these bears the inscription "Anno 1742." This old stone 
house was erected at ditTerent periods and a part of it may have 
been erected by Roelif Eltinge at a still earlier date. Roelif 
had four sons, Noah, Josias, Abraham and Johannes, and three 
daughters, Jacomyntje, Margaretta and Cattrina. We have 
little further knowledge of any of these children except Noah, 
Josias and Margaretta. 

Tradition savs that when Roelif came from Kingston to 



4S4 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

New Paltz he had a beh of gold around his waist. He was one 
of the justices of the county before moving to New Paltz. He 
became a man of much inrtuence in the little settlement, and 
in 1728 was still one of the justices of the county. Roelif was 
an executor of the will of his father-in-law, Abm. DuBois, who 
died in 1731 and was the last survivor of the twelve patentees, 
as stated on his tombstone, still standing in the old burying- 
ground in this village. We can not state the exact date of 
the death of Roelif Eltinge or the place of his burial. His will, 
a copy of which is in the possession of Jacob Eltinge, is dated 
in 1745 and probated in 1747. It is in English. In this will, 
after provision is made for the support of the widow, the son, 
Noah, is given the homestead on which he afterwards resided 
and certain lands in the New Paltz Patent. The grandson, 
/ Roelif Elting, son of the testator's son Abraham, late of the 
/Potomac, is given certain sums of money and land which is 
to be sold. His uncles, Josiah and Noah, are made his guar- 
dians until he arrives at the age of 21 years. The testator's 
eldest son, John of ]\lormel (Marbletown), is given certain 
property and tan pits in the corporation of Kingston ; to John 
and his sons, Peter and Roelif, are given a share in certain 
lands in the Paltz Patent. The will gives to the testator's son 
Josiah the property which he had purchased of his brother-in- 
law, Abraham DuBois, and a share in certain undivided lots 
in the Patent. The daughter, Jacomyntje. wife of Wm. Code- 
bee, and the daughter Margaret, wife of Abraham Bevier, are 
given certain sums of money to be paid by their brothers. The 
sons, John, Josiah and Noah, are appointed executors. ^ 

RoiiLir Eltixgi:s ljiildren 

Roelif *s sons. Noah and Josias, settled at New Paltz. Noah, 
who was born in 1721, lived in the homestead of his father on 



HISTORY OF X E\V VALTZ 485 

the Plains, where his descendants have hved ever since. He 
married his cousin. Jacomyntje Eltinjj. October 16, 1742. They 
had Init one child, Sarah, who married Dirck Wynkoop. 
Though his descendants are not numerous, we have more ex- 
tended information concerninij Noah than any man of that 
day. In 1748 he obtained, in conjunction with Nathaniel Le- 
Fevre, who lived in the old stone house some distance further 
north, torn down about 1885. a grant for 3.000 acres of land. 
This land has remained in the possession of the descendants 
of each, to a considerable extent, to the present day. This 
grant was comprised in three tracts, lying on both sides of the 
Wallkill. The whole, or at least a part of it, had been pre- 
viously granted to Capt. John Evans, but had been vacated 
for some cause and the title reassumed by the government. 
The patent for the 3,000 acres, written on parchment, with the 
colonial seal, several inches in diameter, attached, was in the 
possession of Edmund Eltinge. This grant of the 3,000 acres 
brought a great deal of trouble. It was claimed that the orig- 
inal Paltz patent covered a part of the tract. Louis Bevier 
of ]\Iarbletown, Col. Abm. Hasbrouck of Kingston and Jacob 
Hasbrouck. Jr.. in behalf of the descendants of the patentees, 
began proceedings, alleging, furthermore, that Noah had no 
good title to the homestead, where he resided and which had 
come to him from his father. Finally the matter was settled 
without being tried in court. Noah Eltinge and Nathaniel Le- 
Fevre retained their 3.000 acres, and for a very moderate sum 
(perhaps enough to pay the expenses of litigation) a release 
was signed, in 1754. by Jacob Hasbrouck. Jr.. Louis Bevier 
and Col. Abm. Hasbrouck. confirming to Noah Eltinge his 
title to one lot of 179 acres and another of 22 acres, compris- 
ing, undoubtedly, the homestead. .\ full and lengthy account 
of these matters, drawn \\\\ by N(Xih. was in ihe possession of 
Ednuuid Illtinge. 



486 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

The olil l)arii. still standing on this ])lace. is thought to have 
been built by Koelif Eltinge. It was rebuilt in 1811. The tim- 
bers are of pitch pine, which formerly grew to some extent 
along the Plattekill. Xoah was the first elder in the Confer- 
entia cluirch at Xew Paltz. which was organized in 1767. In 
1773 he owned one-seventeenth of all the undivided land 
in the Paltz patent. The road from Plattekill to New 
Paltz was laid out in Xoah Eltinge's day, and among his 
documents is one throwing some light on this matter. Xoah 
Eltinge died in 1778. aged ^y years, and is interred in tlie 
old graveyard in this village. By his side is the grave of 
his wife, who died in 1790, aged 75 years. We have said 
that X^oah Eltinge left but one child, a daughter named Sarah, 
who married Dirck Wynkoop and continued to (xrcupy her 
father's homestead. Dirck Wynkoop was a prominent man. 
He was one of the delegates from this county to the conven- 
tion in Poughkeepsie which decided to adopt the Federal con- 
stitution. Mr. Wynkoop voted against the measure. During 
his lifetime he held various imp(irtant jniblic positions. Dirck 
and wife left but two children, both daughters, Gertrude, who 
married Alexander Colden and afterwards David Golden, and 
Gornelia. who married Peter Eltinge. Peter was the son of 
William, who was the grandson of William, who was the sec- 
ond son of the original Jan Eltinge of Kingston. Peter con- 
tinued to occupy the old homestead up to the time of his death, 
and it was afterwards occupied l)y his son Edmund. 

JosiAs Elting and His Descendants 

The history of the family of Xoah Eltinge being brought 
down to modern times, we will take up that of his brother, 
Josias (or Josiah), baptized October 12. 1712. and this should 
take more space, as his descendants are nn ire numerous. There 



HISTORY or XJiir r.lLTZ 487 

is no reasonable doubt that Josiah lived in the old Eltingc 
house, still standing, on Huguenot street, nearly opposite the 
late residence of Mrs. Berry. This house bore on one of its 
chimneys till recently the date 1735. It was originally a Bevier 
house, but passed into the possession of the Eltings about 1740. 
Josiah married Helena, daughter of Solomon DuBois, July 15, 
1734. In a tax list dated 1765 Josiah's name appears as the 
wealthiest man in the town. To a list of owners of slaves, 
dated in 1755, Josiah's name is signed as captain. In the 
building of the Conferentia church his name and that of Hen- 
dricus DuBois appear as the most liberal subscribers. We do 
not know when Josiah Eltinge died. Doubtless he was in- 
terred in the old burying-ground in this village, and it is 
singular that no stone marks his grave. Josiah left one daugh- 
ter, Catharine, who married Jacobus Hardenbergh of Hurley, 
and four sons as follows : Roelif J., Abram, Cornelius and 
Solomon. The last named loft no children. Cornelius mar- 
ried Blandina Elmendorf and settled in Hurley, where he left a 
line of descendants. Abram married Dinah DuBois and located 
where his son Philip, his grandson, Mathusalem and his great- 
grandson, Sol. L. F., have since resided. Roelif J. married 
Maria Low, daughter of Johannes M. Low. He occupied his 
father's homestead in this village and carried on the mercantile 
business. 

The Eltinge Homestead 

We have a feeling of pity for any one who does not love 
old houses, something akin to the pity we would feel for any 
one who says he does not love flowers or the song of birds. 
In the whole village there is no more interesting house than 
the one we are about to describe. There are none about which 
cluster more associations and traditions, and there is probably 
no old house in the countv that has slulterod beneath its roof 



488 



II I STORY Ol- \l-.W PALIZ 




xsne^l- 



TllL LlUl.NoL lluMLsItAIJ, UKlGi.NAl.l.V TllK IIEVIER UUlbE 



HISTORY OF NEir PALTZ 489 

the ancestors of so numerous a line of descendants, now livinj;. 
What makes this old structure much more interestinj^ is the 
fact that there has Ix'en no attempt to spoil it by modern im- 
provements. This house is now the i)r()i)erty of Jesse M. 
Eltinge. It is about 50 feet in length and 25 feet wide. It 
has evidently been built at two ditiferent periods — the rear <>r 
eastern end last. On this eastern end the chimney bore until 
a few years ago the figures 1735. The western end. which 
fronts on the street, is evidently the oldest portion of the build- 
ing, but there is no date to determine its age exactly. Before 
entering we must notice the well, which is about 20 feet deep, 
the water of excellent quality and the stones covered with moss 
and ferns all the way from top to bottom. Every Eltinge who 
visits the home of his ancestors must take a drink from this well. 
The house is shaded by locust trees, such as the old folks used 
to plant. On the north side of the Ijuilding the roof projects a 
dozen feet and the earth is paved with flat stones. Here we 
are told the people used to sit in the olden times on Sunday 
and chat until the bell summoned them to attend Divine ser- 
vice at church. Looking at the house we notice the gutters 
sustained in part on stones projecting from the wall : also the 
old shutters, held open by long, twisted hooks. Xo regulation 
style of architecture seems to have existed in the early days of 
the settlement. In this house the window above the door with 
its ten small panes was doubtless considered quite an attempt 
at style in its day. The main window by the side of the door 
is very grand with its 30 panes of 7x9 glass. luitering at the 
front d(wr we find a room which in the old times has been 
about 16x24 ^'i<l this is undoubtedly the room in which the 
merchant's wares were kept. From floor to beams above 
is a distance about eight feet and the great beams are al)out 
loxi^. In the chimnex still hangs the crane. 



490 HISTORY OP XEIV PALTZ 

Descending to the cellar wc tind the most interesting portion 
of the building. Here is a sub-cellar, which now exists in 
none of the other old houses. This sub-cellar is under the 
other cellar and is about four feet deep and walled all round, 
the mortar being made of loam and the floor of the cellar 
proper resting on these walls. Although there is no drain the 
ground is dry as dust owing to its porous, gravelly nature. 
The chimney is about ten feet wide in the cellar and on the east 
side there has been evidently an oven. In the cellar is a fire- 
place and an outside door. The sub-cellars, where they existed 
in the old houses, were, we luiderstand. for wine cellars, to be 
used in the storing of liquors. Ascending now to the first floor 
we notice the huge door frames, of pitch pine timber, 12x6 
inches and fastened together by w(X)den pins. The nails used 
in the building are hand-made and the work of the home car- 
penter is to be seen in the planing of the timbers. Ascending 
the back stairs by the original staircase we notice that it has 
no banister, and doubtless many children and probably some 
grown people have got a tumble in descending it. One room 
on the stairs has been finished off. but in the rest of the house 
there is nothing overhead but the roof and rafters. The rafters 
are very heavy — about 6x4 inches. The floor boards are of 
pitch pine, about 15 inches wide. The bricks in the chimneys 
are of the same length as modern brick, but only about ij^ 
inches thick. Probably they were brought across the ocean 
as ballast and hauled from Kingston. The mortar used in the 
building is of loam, lime and chopped straw. The stone in 
the walls are only such as a farmer would use in building an 
ordinary stone fence, but the excellence of the mortar has held 
the stones together until the present day. 

So ends our description of the house of the richest man in 
the town in 1765. for as such do we find Josiah Eltinge's name 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 491 

t 
in a tax list of that date. From Josiah Eltinge the old home- 
stead passed to his son. Roelif J-, who owned it during the 
Revolutionary period. In the contest between the Coetus and 
Conferentia parties in the church a few years before the Revo- 
lutionary war, which doubtless shook the little community to 
its center, Roelif sided with the latter party, attended their 
church when erected, near Mr. Wm. H. D. Blake's, and when 
after a few years the quarrel was settled and the church had 
stood, unused for awhile, he removed it to this village. 

Roelif J. Eltinge is buried in the old graveyard in this vil- 
lage and his tombstone, of dark sandstone, states that he died 
on the 2 1 St of July, 1796, aged 58 years, 6 months and 4 days. 
By his side is another tombstone, stating that "Mary Louw, 
wife of R. Kiting, departed this life Aug. 24th. 1800. aged 62 
years and 7 days." This couple left five sons : Josiah, Ezckiel, 
Solomon, John, Roelif; also four daughters: Alagdalen, Sarah, 
Catharine and :\Iaria. Each of these nine children of Roelif 
J. married and settled in this vicinity and each one raised a 
large family of children. 

Josiah. the eldest son, married Sarah LeFevre and settled on 
the Turnpike where his grandson, Philip L. F., now lives. 
Josiah had eight children, who grew up and married, of whom 
the last survivor was Gitty, wife of Cornelius D. LeFevre. 
Josiah's sons were Andries, Roelif and Abm. D. B. The 
daughters of Josiah were Maria, wife of Dr. John Bogardus 
and afterward of Abm. P. LeFevre; Rachel, wife of Ralph 
LeFevre ; Cornelia, wife of Peter Deyo, and Magdalen, wife 
of Derick W. Elting. 

Ezekiel. Roelif J.'s second son. kept the old homestead and 
long carried on the mercantile business in partnership with his 
cousin. Philip Elting, who was also his brother-in-law. Later 
in life, in 1800. Ezekiel built the large stone house where Jesse 



492 HISTORY Of NEW FALTZ 

M. Elting lived many \ears in our day. Here the mercantile 
business continued to be carried on. Ezekiel married Magda- 
len Elting and they left a family of eight children, of whom 
Jacob Elting of Clintondale was the last survivor. The other 
children of Ezekiel were Solomon, Alexander. Dinah, Maria, 
Sarah, Catharine and Jane. All of these lived in New Paltz or 
adjoining towns except Alexander, who located at Owasco in 
western New York. Dinah married C. Brodhead and long 
carried on the milling business at Dashville Falls, Maria 
married Andries DuBois, Catharine married Andries Deyo. 
Ezekiel's son Solomon lived two or three years in the "Old 
Homestead" and afterwards lived and carried on the mercantile 
business in the store across the street from the Huguenot Bank. 
Solomon was elected sheriff of the county iu 1837. ^^ ^^'^s 
the father of Abm. \'. N. of this village and Ezekiel of 
Highland. 

Going back now to the next son of Roelif J., who was named 
Solomon, we find that he was first married to Cornelia LeFevre 
and afterwards to Rachel Eckert and left a family of eleven 
children, of whom Tobias was the last survivor. Several of 
this family located at a distance. Roelif. the eldest son, lived 
on South street in Lloyd. There were only two other sons, 
David and Solomon, the rest of the eleven children being 
daughters. 

The next of Roelif J.'s sons. John, married Jane W'urts and 
lived in Esopus opposite Hyde Park. He left four daughters 
and only one son, George, who has a son, John, who is now 
and has been for many years engaged in business in this village. 
Roelif J.'s son Roelif lived in the north part of the village, 
where Philip D. Elting now lives. He married Dinah Elting. 
They left a family of four sons and five daughters, not any of 
whom located in this vicinitv. Roelif built the dvke along the 



HISTORY OF NEIV PALTZ 493 

W'allkill about 1795. Three of the sons were Daniel of Ellen- 
ville and Brodhead and Ezekiel of Port Ewen. 

W'c have said tliat Roolif J. left four daughters, Magdalen, 
Sarah, Catharine and ^laria. All of those married in this 
town and all left large families of children. The eldest daugh- 
ter, ]\Iagdalen, married Peter LeFevre and they left a family 
of nine children, of whom Moses P., ^Magdalen and Josiah P. 
were the last survivors, the two first named each living until 
upwards of 90 years of age. Magdalen, who died in 1900, 
aged nearly 93 years, was the last survivor of the yy grand- 
children of Roelif J. Elting. 

The next of Roelif J.'s daughters, Sarah, married W'm. 
Deyo and lived with him on what is now Oscar Tschirkey's 
farm, about four miles north of this village. This couple 
raised a family of five sons and six daughters, all of these eleven 
marrying and nearly all settling in this immediate vicinity. 
The sons of this family were William \V., Roelif, Ezekiel, 
Cornelius and Abram W. 

Roelif J.'s next daughter, Catharine, married Philip Elting 
and they lived about a mile north of this village, where their 
grandson. Sol. L. F., now lives. This couple left seven chil- 
dren who reached maturity and five married. 

Roelif J.'s youngest daughter, Maria, married Garret Du- 
Bois. They lived on what is now the southern bound of the 
town, where their son Jacob G. and their grandsons, Philip 
and Solomon, resided. This couple left four sons, Henry, 
Jacob. Roelif and Solomon, all of whom married, and three 
daughters, Catharine. Rebecca and JNIaria. Of this family 
Solomon, who lived at \ igo, Ross county, Ohio, was the last 
survivor. 

In all Roelif J. Elting and his wife had jj grandchildren 
who grew up. Most of these marrie<l and settled in this 



494 HISTORY OF XEir PALTZ 

vicinity. There is such a host of the second cousins that the 
old lioniestead would not begin to hold them. 

Abram, son of Josiah and brother of Roelif J., located 
where his great-grandson, Sol. L. Eltinge, now lives, about 
a mile north of this village, which place has been in pos- 
session of his descendants ever since. Abram married Dinah, 
daughter of Hendricus DuBois of Xescatack. They left 
four sons, Josiah. Henry, Noah and Philip, and two daugh- 
ters, Jane and Margaret; also one son. Jacobus, by the second 
wife, Dorothy Bessimer. Of these sons Philip kept his father's 
homestead. He carried on the mercantile business in this vil- 
lage, many years in partnership with his cousin, Ezekiel El- 
tinge, who was also his double brother-in-law (each marrying 
the other's sister) in the stone house with a brick front, now 
owned by his grandson, Jesse M. Elting. 

Abram's son Josiah married Hester P.rodhead and, together 
with his brother Henry, who did not marry, built, about 1786, 
the brick house now owned and occupied by Mr. Terpenning. 
about 2^/2 miles north of this village and which is liy far 
the oldest brick house in this town. Josiah died in 1813, May 
15th. aged 52 years, and his wife, Hester, in 1848, at the ripe 
age of 86 years. Both lie buried in the northwest corner of 
the old graveyard in this village. Josiah left four sons, Cor- 
nelius, Abm. J., Charles and Richard. The last named studied 
medicine and located in Rondout, where he became a very noted 
physician. Charles lived on part of the old homestead and 
built his house where his grandson, Watson, lived. Abm. J. 
lived for a time in the brick house of his father. (")ne of .\bm. 
J.'s sons. Edgar, became a doctor and settled in Kingston. 
Another. Norman, was educated at West Point Military Acad- 
emy and w.T^ in the <;i'rvice of the government a considerable 
time. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 



495 




HOUSE BUILT BV JOSIAH ELTING — THE OLDEST BKU K HOL SE IN THE TOWN 



496 HJSrORV OF XEW PALTZ 

W'c will now take up tlic history of Abrani Elting's son 
Noah, who was born in 1763. lie married Hannah Deyo and 
located at New Paltz Landinj:: on a tract of 500 acres. His 
house was built near the ferry landing. He established the 
ferry to Poughkeepsie. which at first was propelled by oars 
and sails, giving place afterwards to horse power, and finally 
to steam as the propelling force. Noah died in 1813 and is 
buried in the old cemetery at Highland. His brother Henry, 
of whom we have previously spoken, died three years earlier 
and is buried in the same cemetery. Noah left a family of 
five sons, viz. : Abram, Henry D., Joseph, Philip and David. 
Abram commenced the freighting business by running a sloop 
to New York about the time of the close of the second war 
with England antl he continued in the business for perhaps 40 
years, his son Luther being latterly associated with him and 
the sloop griving place to a barge. Noah's son Philip erected 
the first buildings, in the present village of Highland, about 
1825. 

Going back now to the family of Abram's son Philip at 
New Paltz. who we have said lived about a mile north of this 
village and long carried on the mercantile business here, we 
find that he married Catharine Eltinge. They left a family of 
three sons, Moses, ^lathusalem and Jesse, and five daughters, 
Maria, Rebecca, Dinah, Magdalen and Gertrude. Mathusalem 
occupied the homestead of his father up to the time of his 
death, since which time it has been occupied by the son, 
Solomon L. F. 

Right here we will note a curious instance of heredity from 
a female ancestor. The Eltings are not generally noted for 
their large size. but. as we have stated, Abram Elting married 
Dinah, daughter of Hendricus DuP.ois. The family of Hen- 
dricus were noted for their goodlv stature, a saving of an old 



II I STORY Of XEir PALTZ 497 

negro being still remcnibered thai more large people had prob- 
ably come out of his house than any other in the country. Now, 
among the descendants of Abram Kiting and his wife, Dinah 
DuBois. are found to this day men of large size. The Eltings, 
not descended from this line, arc not above the average in 
physical proportions. 

The Hurley Eltinges 

The Hurley Eltinges are descended from Cornelius, the son 
of Josiah and brother of Roelif J., and Abram, who moved 
from Xew Paltz about the time of the Revolutionary war and 
located on a farm about a mile south of Kingston, which is still 
owned by the family. Cornelius Eltinge married Blandina 
Elmendorf and left a family of three sons, Solomon, Cornelius 
and Wilhelmus. and four daughters, Jane, who married Mat- 
thew Oliver; Polly, who married David Bevier; Blandina, 
who did not marry, and Katie, who married Dr. Peter Crispell. 
Two of Cornelius' sons, W'ilhelmus and Cornelius, became 
ministers of the gospel. The first named located at Paramus, 
Xew Jersey. Cornelius located at Port Jcrvis. The son, 
Solomon, kept his father's homestead at Hurley and he has 
descendants still living at the place. 

Rev. W'ilhelmus Elting married Jane Houseman and they 
had three children. Maria, who married Cornelius \'an Winkle. 
Jane \'. W.. who married Augustus Hasbrouck of Shawan- 
gunk. and Cornelius, who married Catharine Hardenburgh, 
daughter of Jacobus Hardenburgh of Marbletown. 

We have now completed the history of the Eltings at New 
Paltz — the only family not of original Huguenot stock that 
settled here at an early date and increased and flourished at 
New Paltz. 



498 HISTORY Of XEll' PALTZ 

Before closing this chapter we will allude to the personal 
characteristics of the Eltings, as noted by the old people. They 
are an active, thrifty, energetic race, given to sociability and 
hospitality. They have been, almost without exception, up- 
rit,dit. moral and church-going people. Bluntness of speech 
and positiveness in dislikes and likes may be considered to 
some extent as family traits. A tendency to turn gray at a 
comparatively early age has been considered by the old people 
as a physical characteristic. 



HISTORY Of NEW PALTZ 499 



CHAPTER XLIV 

Familiks Living ix the Congrf.gation but xot in the 
Precinct of New Paltz 

The Schoonmaker Famh^vin Gardiner 

llemlrick jochcnscn Schoonmaker, founder of the Schoon- 
maker family in America, was a native of Hamburg. Germany. 
He came to this country from Holland as lieutenant in the mili- 
tary service of the Dutch East India Company, in 1654. He 
was sent with his company to Fort Orange (Albany ), where he 
later became an innkeeper. In 1659 he was sent with his com- 
pany on order of Governor Stuyvesant to the Esopus (Kings- 
ton) to assist the settlers there in defending themselves against 
the Indians. He was so attracted by the beautiful lands in the 
Esopus country that on his return to Fort Orange he sold his 
property there and located among the people he had been sent 
to defend. He married, at Fort Orange. Elsie, daughter of Jan 
Janse \'an Breestede. He died in if)8i. He left five children, 
of whom the eldest, Jocherri Hendrick, married Petronella Sleght 
in 1679. After her death he married Ann Hussey. He was one 
of the pioneer settlers of the town of Rochester and was one of 
the three trustees to whom a patent was granted in 1703. He 
died in 1713. 

By his first wife he had four children. The eldest of these. 
Cornelius B., married, in 1711. Engeltjc Roosa. They had 
three daughters and only one son. Cornelius, wlio married, in 
1744. Arriantje Hornbeck of Rochester. 

Cornelius settled on a large tract of land on the north side of 
Shawangunk, which he ])urchased from the James Henderson 
patent, which adjoined on the snuth the Zachariah Hoffman 
patent. He died in .""^hawangunk January 21. 177S. 



500 HISTORY OF XEU' PALTZ 

He had three sons : CorneHus C, Abraham and Isaac, all of 
whom located in what is still called Schoonmakertown, in the 
present town of Gardiner. The son Cornelius C. did not re- 
main in that locality. Abram and Isaac staid. Abram had a 
family of seven sons : John A., George, David, Moses, Selah, 
Cornelius and Abram. All of the sons, with probably one ex- 
ception, settled along the Marakill and all married and left 
children. 

Isaac married Sarah DuBois. Their eldest child, ^lathusa- 
lem, was baptized at New Paltz in 1783. ]\Iathusalem lived at 
Tuthill. Isaac had four other children : Harriet, who married 

Goetcheous ; Policy, who married Tjerick DeWitt; 

Abraham, who married Rachel Deyo, and Jacob I. The last 
named married Arriantje Schoonmaker, and after her death 
Ann Baird. Jacob I. carried on the blacksmith business at 
Libertyville. and afterwards put up a store building and long 
carried on the mercantile business at that place. He was a 
member of Assembly in 1828 and again in 183 1. It was during 
his term of office that measures were taken to erect the first 
county poorhouse and he was one of the committee. 

From the late Elihu Schoonmaker, who was a son of Jacob 
I., the information was obtained concerning the location of the 
Schoonmaker family in Gardiner. 

The Ro.vk Family 

The ancestor of the Ronk family in Ulster county was John 
George dc Ranke. He lived in Belgium near the French line 
and was educated for the ministry. About the year 1740. Bel- 
gium being under the dominion of Holland, having incurred 
the hostility of the government, de Ranke left the country and 
fled to America. He married his wife, Clara Battie, on board 
the ship. 



HISTORY OF Xliir PALTZ 501 

In 1750 he purchased of Frances Barbaric, daughter of Peter 
Barbaric, the patentee of that tract, 245 acres, at $2.50 an acre, 
on the Shawangunk Plains road. He built a log house on this 
tract by a big spring about the centre of the portion of this 
tract lying on the west side of the road, and afterwards a stone 
house on the extreme north part of the tract. This house was 
lately owned and occupied by Mr. Jacob Tears. In the same 
year (1750) he joined tlie church at Xew Paltz by letter and 
he was elected a deacon. 

Some time afterwards dc Ranke made a second purchase of 
Frances Barbaric amounting to 277 acres. Afterwards de 
Ranke made a purchase of land from James Erwin joining his 
previous purchases on the south and joining Dr. Phinney'sfann. 

Ronk's name and that of his wife appear at different times 
on the New Paltz church records as sponsors at the baptism of 
children, and in 1760 Ronk's name appears as sponsor at the 
baptism of his grandchild, Johannes Ostrander. 

John George de Rank or Ronk (as it was afterwards written) 
left four sons, Laurents, John, Philip and Cornelius ; also four 
daughters : Christina, who married Peter Ostrander ; Mar- 
garet, who married Peter Pich ; Janet, who married Ezekiel 
Masten, and Anna, who married Dr. Plum of Plattekill. 

The two brothers, John and Philip Ronk, were at Fort Mont- 
gomery, when it was taken by the British in the Revolutionary 
war, but they escaped to the mountains and returned home. 

The name of Cornelius Ronk appears as a private in the 4th 
Regiment, Ulster County Militia. 

Laurents Ronk left but one child, a son named John George. 
He sold his father's farm and bought the place south of the 
Flint, where J. J. Van Steenbergh lived before emigrating to 
California. 

John Ronk, one of the four brothers, married a Sinsabagh. 



502 nis'i ORy OF A/iir paltz 

lie left several sons, one of whom, whose name was Joseph, 
kept the farm. 

Laurents Ronk, the eldest son of John George, was one of 
the organizers of the church at New Hurley in 1770. 

The name of his father, John George, does not appear in the 
church records until three or four years after the organization 
of the church, when he served several years as an elder. He 
was probably connected with the church at New Paltz and did 
not unite with the church at Xew Hurley at its first organiza- 
tion. The name in this church record is spelled in various 
ways — de Rank. Ranke, Rank, Rancke. 

John George divided his land aniong his four sons, Laurents, 
John, Philip and Cornelius. The first named received five 
shillings as his birthright. He had only 100 acres of land from 
his father, hut was given £800 in money. The daughters re- 
ceived £250 in money. 

Laurents (who is the grandfather of the late A. ^L Ronk 
of Brooklyn), lived in a stone house which he built, south of the 
New Hurley church on the road to Wallkill. John, the second 
son, built and lived in a stone house on the road to the W^allkill. 
This house was of late occupied by Mr. Sutton. Philip built 
and occupied a stone house, still standing, adjoining the Dr. 
Phinney place. Cornelius, the youngest son, kept his father's 
homestead. The houses of the four brothers are all still standing 
except that built by Laurents. 

The Relvea Family 

The first mention we find of any Relyea is when the name of 
Dennis Relje a])pears as godfather at the baptism of a child of 
Hugo Freer and his wife, Mary LeRoy, in 1693. Dennis' 
wife's name was Joanna LeRoy. Probably .she and Hugo 
Freer's wifi- win- 'si«;t«rs. Dennis Reljea long occupied the 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 503 

house on the Hudson, just south of Juffrow's Hook, as the 
point was called, where the south bounds of the patent struck 
the river. He and his wife, Joanna LeRoy, had several chil- 
dren baptized in the Kinsj^ston church — David in 1703, Claudina 
in 1706, Hester in 1708. 

Although the first Dennis Relje had children, it is learned 
from the manner in which the location is mentioned in the con- 
tract of 1744, that they did not occupy the house on the Hudson 
after his dcatli. nor do we find any further mention of the family 
until in 1759, when David Relyea, doubtless the same whose 
christening is recorded in 1703, appears as godfather at the 
baptism of David, child of Dennis Relje and Alarytje Van \'leit 
at Kingston. In 1771 Dennis and his wife, Marytje Van \'leit, 
joined the church at New Paltz. It was probably at about this 
time that Dennis located at New Hurley. In the list of sol- 
diers of the Revolution we find the names of Dennis, Peter, 
John and Simeon Relje. About this time the name of Simeon 
also appears in the New Paltz church book. In 1793 David 
Relyea and his wife, Lana Ostrander, joined the New Paltz 
cliurch by letter from New Hurley. In 1795 Dennis Relyea 
was an elder in the New Paltz church. 

TiiK Smith Famha' .\t Swartekill 

The territory lying north of the Paltz patent in the present 
town of Esopus. on the east side of the Wallkill. was called 
Swartekill by the old people, and the name is still applied to 
the locality a little north of Rifton. \\\' are indebted to Mr. 
William Smith, the Sunday school missionary, for information 
concerning the early history of the Swartekill neighborhood, 
derived mainly from his grandfather. William Smith, as fol- 
lows: Probably the first settler in this neighborhood was his 
ancestor. 1 lendrick .*~^mit. the first of the name in this countrv. 



504 J/ISTORY Of XEW PALTZ 

He came from Holland in the same ship with Jacob Rutsen, 
who was the first settler at Rosendale and father-in-law of 
Johannes Hardenbergh. the first of the name in Ulster county. 
Rutsen paid Smit's passage across the ocean and the latter 
worked for some time to repay the money advanced. He then 
got a life lease for eighty acres of land on the east side of the 
\\'allkill and inchulod in the Hardenbergh patent. There were 
no definite bounds assigned to the eighty acres, except that it 
bounded on the south on the Paltz patent. It lay east of the 
Dashville falls. The house was built about 171 5. at about the 
same date that Hugo Freer, Jr.. Hendricus Deyo and Isaac 
LeFevre located on the Wallkill in the northern part of the 
Paltz patent. The annual rent paid by Smit was "a hen and a 
rooster." In his old days he obtained a deed for the eighty 
acres, which has never been put on record. But the property 
has descended in the family from father to son for 175 years, 
and the name of the owner has alternated from William to 
Henry for the whole time. During the entire period there 
never has been a mortgage on the property. Our informant 
has a son, Henry, who has a son named William, so the custom 
of naming the infant son for its grandfather has been continued 
to the present day. 

The house, partly of stone and ])artly of frame, is situated 
a snort distance east of Rifton. The very first house on the 
place was of logs. Some time ago an examination of the walls 
disclosed a small loose stone, which on being pulled out proved 
to be a whetstone, bearing the date 1704. 

Our informant's grantlfather, \\'illiam Smith, was a soldier 
in the army of the Revolution. At the age of seventy-two he 
attended the gathering of Revolutionary soldiers at Kingston, 
in 1831, half a century after the surrender of Yorktown He 
drew a pension of three dollars a inontli in his old age and was 
assigned bounty lands at Hurley. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 505 



CHAPTER XLV 

Genealogy of the French Settlers of New Paltz 
TO THE Third Generation 

BY LOUIS BEVIER 

The reformation in France in the sixteenth century included 
among its adherents many of the nobiUty as well as the com- 
mon people who, as a whole,, constituted a large and influential 
part of the population of most of the provinces of France. 

Whenever the persecutions of the government and Romish 
hierarchy became particularly oppressive and violent the Hu- 
guenots, as they were called in derision by their enemies, living 
in Catholic communities and under Catholic rulers, were often 
obliged to seek refuge from the storm in those communities, 
where their co-religionists were in greater number so as to be 
able to afford them some protection, more particularly to those 
provinces where the Huguenot princes were in authority. 
These movements of the Huguenot population continued at 
intervals down to 1628, when Rochelle, the last of their strong- 
holds, was taken by Cardinal Richelieu, the minister of Louis 
Xni. and the power of the Huguenots as a political party was 
broken, and from this time all prudent persons foresaw that 
there remained no adequate security that the peace and tolera- 
tion now freely promised by the king would be maintained. 
Thev had too often proved by sad experience that Catholic 
princes acted on the maxim that "no faith should be kept with 
heretics." to trust the sincerity of the king and his advisers : 
hence large numbers sought asylums in the neighboring Cal- 
viiiistic States where they might enjoy those rights and privi- 



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HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 




MR. I.itUIS ISEVIHK, OF M AHIU.ETOWX 



II I STORY OF NEW PALTZ 507 

leges which were denied them at home. So a more general 
emigration was inaugurated throughout the kingdom, and 
France lost thousands of her most quiet and industrious citi- 
zens to the manifest and acknowledged advantage of the Neth- 
erlands, England, Switzerland and the Palatine provinces. The 
French government from time to time increased the difficulties 
in the way of these fugitives until after the revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes, in 1685, their flight was absolutely forbidden. 
Yet still members, by one device or another, managed to es- 
cape to their brethren who had preceded them. 

About the year 1650 the band of Huguenots who afterward 
associated as patentees of New Paltz, began to gather from 
their several homes in France in the vicinity of ]\Ianheim in 
the Palatinate where they sojourned about ten years, during 
which time some of those friendships and connections were 
formed which survived the transplanting to the new world. 

Whilst they were in the Palatinate they affiliated with the 
churches there and enjoyed the confidence and respect of the 
church officials. This is evidenced by the certificates given 
by the pastors to many of the emigrants on leaving for their 
new homes. 

r)ne of these given by Jacob Amyot, the noted pastor of the 
church at Mutterstadt near Manhcim, to Pierre Deio, is still 
in possession of one of his descendants at New Paltz, by whom 
it is valued as a precious relic of the past. This is dated 
January 31, 1675, the year preceding his arrival at Wiltwyck. 
It is said that the heirs of Jean Hasbrouck, one of the paten- 
tees, held a similar certificate dated March 16, 1672. and Peter 
Gumaer's heirs hold a similar paper dated Moise. April 20, 
1686. Doubtless others of a like character wt-rc bn.ught by 
each of these emigrant families. 

.Matthew Blanshan and his wife, Maddeleen Jorisse, and 



5o8 HISTOR) ur X EW PALIZ 

their son-in-law. Antliony Chrispol, with his wife, Maria Blan- 
shan, and three younger children of Blanshan. were the first 
of these refugees to set sail for the new world in the Gilded 
Otter, April ly, 1660. They arrived at Wiltwyck before De- 
cember 7. 1660. for at that date we find Dominie Blom's 
record of their presence at his first celebration of the Lord's 
Supper. 

The next arrival from this band was another son-in-law of 
Blanshan. Louis DuBois. who. with his wife. Catharine Blan- 
shan. and their two young children. Abraham and Isaac, aged 
respectively four and two years, arrived at Wiltwyck in 1661. 
Matthew Blanshan and his two sons-in-law settled at the new 
village (now Hurley) as early as 1662. At the time of its 
burning by the Indians. June 7. H563. Matth\s Blanshan's two 
children, Louis DuBois' wife and three children and Anthony 
Chrispel's wife and child were taken prisoners and remained 
among their captors about three months, when they were at 
length restored to their friends. It was during the efforts to 
recover the prisoners, held by the Indians, that attention was 
first drawn to the lands along the Wallkill whore New Paltz 
was subsequently located. 

The LeFevre brothers. Simon and Andre, were in Wiltwyck 
and united with the church there April 2},, \(J^^^. The exact 
date of their emigration is unknown. They were young, im- 
married men at this time and brought to their new home the 
energy and enthusiasm for the reformed faith, which charac- 
terized the eminent scholar of their name. Jacobus Stapulensis 
Faber or LeFevre. 

Advised of the unsettled condition of the New Netherlands, 
no more emigrants left the colony in the Palatinate until May 
17, 1672. when Jean Ilasbrouck and wife. Anna, daughter of 
Christian Deyo. and their two daughters. Mary and Hester, 



IIISTOKV OF XEW I'. I LIZ 509 

set out from Manhcini and arrived at W'illwyck in the sprini; 
of 1673. Jean Hasbrouck and his brother Abraham {oi whom 
we shall speak later) were originally from the vicinity of Calais 
before their emigration to the Palatinate. 

Louis Beviere and his wife Maria LaBlan followed shortly 
after to Xew York, in 1O73, but made no permanent settle- 
ment until 1O77 when the settlement at New Paltz took place. 
His two children, born before that time, were baptized else- 
where. 

Hugh Frere and his wife, Alary Haye, and three children, 
Hugh, Abraham and Isaac, arrived about 1676, but there is no 
record of his appearance at W'illwyck until the purchase of 
the land from the Indians and patent from Andros, September 
29, 1677. 

About this time Christian Deyo, with i'ierre Deyo and his 
wife, Agatha Nickol, and their child Christian, came over and 
accompanied b\- the three unmarried daughters of Christian, 
viz. : Maria, Elizabeth and Margaret. Alaria married Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck, the brother of Jean, mentioned before, Novem- 
ber 17, 1676; Elizabeth married Simon LeFevre, 1676; Mar- 
garet married Abraham DuBois, 1681. Thus Christian Deyo, 
the oldest of the twelve patentees, gathered all of his family 
around him again in the Xczi; Paltz, as they had been before 
in the German Palatinate. 

Abraham Hasbrouck sailed from Amsterdam in 1675 and 
landed at Boston, and in July rejoined his brother Jean and his 
other friends. 

In May, 1677, Louis DuBois and his associates obtained, by 
purchase, the title from the Indians to all the lands from the 
Shawangunk mountains to the Hudson river, which were more 
particularly described in the patent subsequently given by 
Ciovernor .\ndros September 29th of the same year. The Pat- 



510 HISTORY Of XEll' FALTZ 

entees as named in said Patent were Louis Duliois, Christian 
Doyau, Abraham Hasbrouck, Andre LeFebvre, Jean Has- 
brouck, Pierre Doyau. Louis Beviere, Anthoine Crespel, Abra- 
ham DuBois, Hugue Frere, Isaac DuBois and Simon LeFebvre. 
These men and their families removed to their patent lands 
and there founded the village of New Paltz in the spring of 
the subsequent year. Here in 1O83 they organized the French 
Reformed church, electing Louis DuBois as elder and Hugo 
Frere deacon. They adopted the confession of faith framed 
by the first Synod of the Reformed church of France in the 
year 1559 and the other formularies of the French Reformed 
church. These continued in use in the church and its school 
until the change from the French to the Dutch language was 
made, when tlie Heidelberg catechism took their place and 
the French church was merged into the Reformed Dutch 
church. 

Below is a short account of the twelve patentee families to 
the third generation. 

The Children of Louis DuBois, the P.\tentee 

The children of Louis DuBois and Catharine Blanshan were : 

Abraham, b. 1657, ^t Manheim ; m. Margaret Deyo (daugh- 
ter of Christian), March 6, 1681 ; settled at Xew Paltz. 1678; 
d. October 7, 1731. 

Isaac, b. cir. 1659, at Matiluim; m. Marie Hasbrouck ( b. 
Mutterstadt cir. 1662), June, 1683; settled at Xew Paltz, 1678; 
d. June 28. i6<">o. 

Jacob, 1). Octol)er 9. i6')i, at Xew X'illage (Hurley); m. 
Gitty Ciarretson (b. February 13, 1665), March 25. 1689; 
settled at Hurk\ ; d. 1745. 



H/SrOR)' OF A/://' I'ALTZ 511 

Sarah, b. September 14, 1OO4, at Hurley; in. Joost Jansen of 
Marbletown, December 12. 1682. 

David, b. Marcli 13. 16O7, at Hurley; m. Cornelia Vernooy 
(b. April 3, 1667), ]\larch 8, 1689; settled at Rochester. 

Solomon, b. 1670. at Hurley; m. Tryntje Garretson (b. cir. 
1671), cir. 1692; settled at New Paltz (Poughvvaughtenonk) ; 
d. 1759. 

Rebecca, b. June 18, 1671 ; d. young. 

Rachel, b. April 18, 1675; d. young. 

Louis, b. 1677; m. Rachel Hasbrouck (daughter of Abm., 
b. cir. 1679), January 19, 1701 ; settled at New Paltz (Nesca- 
tack) ; d. after 1729. 

jMatthew, b. January 3, 1679, at New Paltz; m. Sarah Mat- 
thysen (daughter of 2vlatthys ]\Iatthysen and Tjatje Dewitt, 
b. April 17, 1678) ; settled at Kingston. 

Children of Abrah.vm DuBois 
The children of Abraham and Margaret Deyo were : 

Sarah, b. Xcw Paltz, May 18. 1682; m. Roelif Eltinge, June 
13. 1703, New Paltz. 

Abraham, b. April 17, 1685; m. ; settled Somerset 

county, N. J. 

Leah, b. Xew Paltz, October 16. 1687; m. Philip Ferre; 
settled Lancaster county, Penn. 

Twins — Mary. d. yc^ung; Rachel, b. Xew Paltz. October 
13. 1689: m. Isaac DuBois (son of Solomon). April 6, 1713: 
settled at PesKoine Creek, Penn. 

Catharine, b. Xew Paltz, May 21. 1693; m. W'm. Donnelson, 
October 24, 1728; settled at Lancaster county. Penn. 

Noah, b. Februarv 18. 1700: d. young. 

Joel. I). Xew Pallz. 1703: d. 1734. 



512 HJSTORV OF XEir PALTZ 

Children of Isaac DlBois 

The children of Isaac and Maria Hashr^uick were : 

Daniel, b. April 28, i(j84; ni. Mary LeFevre (daughter of 
Simon), June 8, 1713. Xew Paltz. 

Benjamin, b. April lO, 1689; *^- yo""g- 

Philip, b. May 14, 1690; m. Esther Gumaer (daughter of 
Peter), Rochester. 

Children of Jacob DuBois 

The children of Jacob and Gitty Gerretson were : 

Magdalena. b. May 25. 1690; m. 1st. Garret Roosa, Decem- 
ber 30, 1710: m. 2d, Peter VanEst. October 20. 1718. Hurley. 

Barent. b. May 3. 1693; ni. Jacuniyntje DuBois (daughter 
of Sol.). Pittsgrove, X; J. 

Louis, b. January 6, 1695; m. ist. Jane \ an\ lict. April 16, 
1718; m. 2d, Margaret Jansen, May 22, 1720, Pittsgrove, N.J. 

Geiltje. b. May 13, 1697; ""•• Cornelius NieuKirk, Septem- 
ber 3. 1737. 

Gerrit. b. March 29. 1700: d. in infancy. 

Isaac, b. February i, 1702; m. ist. Xjeltje Roosa, August 
5, 1732; m. 2d. Jannetje Roosa. October 15. 1760, Kingston. 

Gerrit, b. February 13, 1704: ni. Margaret Elmondorf, July 
18, 1730. 

Catrina, b. March 17. 1706; m. Petrus Smedes, January 24, 
1725. Hurley. 

Rebecca, b. October 31, 1708: m. Petrus Bogardus, Septem- 
ber 15, 1726. 

Johannes, b. October 10. 1710: m. Judith Wynkoop (daugh- 
ter of Corn.), December 14, 1736. Hurley. 

Sarah, b. December 20. 171 3: m. Conrad Elmondorf (son 
of Conrad), May 2y, 1734, Kingston. 



HISTORY OF NEW I'ALTZ 513 

Children of David DuBois 
The children of David and Cornelia Vernooy were: 

Catrina, b. May 25, 1690; d. in infancy. 
Catryn, b. April 7, 1692; m. Wm. Kool (son of Leonard). 
Hanna, b. October 11, 1696. 
Anna, b. March 28, 1703; m. Jacob Vernooy. 
Josaphat, b. March 17. 1706: m. Tjatje VanKeuren, April 
21. 1730. 

Elizabeth, b. October 31, 1708. 

Children of Solomon DuBois 

The children of Solomon and Trintje Garretson v^'ere : 

Isaac, b. September 27, 1691 ; m. Rachel DuBois (dauj^^Vi- 
ter of Abm.), Perkiomen, Pa. 

Jacomyntje, b. 1693; m. Barrent DuBois (son of Jacob), 
April 23, 171 5, Pennsylvania. 

Benjamin, b. May 16, 1697; m. Catrina Zuyland, Catskill. 

Sarah, b. January i, 1700; m. Simon Jacobse Van Wagenen, 
November 17, 1720, Marbletown. 

Catryn, b. October 18, 1702; d. in infancy. 

Cornelius, b. ; m. Anna Margaret Hotaling, April 

7, 1729, Poughwoughtenonk. 

Magdalena. b. April 15, 1705; d. young. 

Catharine, b. ; m. Petrus Mathens Louw. December 

9, 1722, Poughwoughtenonk. 

Deborah, b. ; probably died young. 

Hendricus, b. December 31. 1710: m. Janncijc Hotaling. 
April 15. 1733, Nescatack. 

Magdalena. b. December 20, 1713; m. Josiah Elting (son of 
Roelif). May 6. 1734. New Paltz. 



51-1 HISTORY or N EW PALTZ 

ClIIF.UKKN OF l^)Ul.S UuIjOIS 

riu" children (jf Louis and Rachel Hasbrouck were: 

Maria, b. December i, 1701 ; d. in infancy. 

Nathaniel, b. June 6, 1703; ni. 1st, (jertrudc Bruyn, May 
17. 1726; in. 2d. (jertrude Hoffman, Salisbury Mills, Orange 
county. 

Mary, b. March 24. 1706. 

Jonas, b. June 20, 1708. 

Jonathan, b. December 31, 1710; in. KHz. LeKevre (daugh- 
ter of Andries), December 25, 1732, Xescatack. 

Catrina, h. (October 31. 1715: ni. Wessel Brodhead. January 

-\S, 1734- 

Louis, b. 1717: 111. Charity Andrevelt, Staten Island. 

Chii.dricn ok Mattiu:\v DuBois 

The children of Matthew and Sarah Matthyseii were: 

Louis, b. July 18, 1697. 

Matthcns, b. October 9. 1698. 

Tliskiah. b. January 26. 1701 ; in. .\nna Pier.son. June 17, 
1722. 

Ephraini, b. May 30. 1703; m. Anna Catrien Delamater. 

Johannes, b. March 17, 1706; in. Rebecca Tappen, Novem- 
ber 16, 1728. 

Tjatje, b. Noveni])(.r 2. 1707. 

Jesse, b. February. 1709. 

Eliza, b. (J)ctober 4, 1713. 

Catrina. b. December 4. 1715. 

Gideon, b. January 11, 1719. 

Jeremiah, b. May 18, 1721. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 515 

The Children of Christian Devu, the Patentee 

Christian Deyo had five children who were all prohahly Ixjrn 
before he went to Germany. 

Anna, b. 1644; m. Jean Hasbrouck. 

Pierre (Peter), b. between 1646-1650; m. Agatha Nickol, 
about 1672 ; settled at New Paltz, and was one of the Patentees. 

Maria, b. 1653 ! '"• Abraham Hasbrouck, November 17, 1676. 

Elizabeth, ; m. Simon LeFevre, about 1678. 

Margaret. ; m. Abm. DuBois, about 1680 or 1681. 

Children of Pierre Deyo 

The children of Pierre Deyo and Agatha Nickol were : 

Christian, b. 1674, in Palatinate; m. Mary Le Conte (or as 
translated into Dutch DeGroff, in church records it appears in 
both forms), February 20, 1702. 

Abraham, b. October 16, 1676; m. Elsie Clearwater. Octo- 
ber, 1725. New Paltz (Village). 

Mary, b. April 20, 1679. 

Pierre, baptized October 14. 1683. 

Margaret, baptized October 14. 1683. 

Maddeline, b. April 16, 1689. 

Hcnricus, b. October 12, 1690; m. December 31, 1715. Mar- 
traret Wanboom (or VanBummel). New Paltz (Bontecoe). 

Children of Chri.'^tian Deyo 

The children of Christian anti Mary Lo Conte were; 

Peter, b. 1702; {jrobably d. young. 

Jacobus, b. January 16. 1704: ni. Janctjf I'rccr. < Jctober 
28. 1724: removcfl to Kingston before 1738. 



5i6 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

Moses, b. January 26, 1706; m. Clarissa Stohraad, of Hoog- 
drytslandt, April \y, 1728. 

Maria, b. September 11, 1709; m. Jecms Achmootie, Sep- 
tember 19, 1731, Bontecoe. 

Angcnieter, b. March 30, 1712; probably d. young. 

Esther, b. February 27, 1715; m. Hugo Hugosen Freer, 
August 18, 1738. 

Margaret, b. January 27, 1717: m. Marinus V'an Acken, 
August 30, 1740 (2d wife). 

Children of Abraham Deyo 
The children of Abraham and Elsie Clearwater were : 

Marytje, b. November 7, 1708; m. Isaac Freer, August 24, 
1723. New Paltz. 

Wyntje, b. January 24, 1708; m. Daniel Hasbrouck. 

Abraham, b. October 16. 1710; m. Elizabeth DuBois. New 
Paltz (Village). 

Cjiii.iiki..\ 01 Hexry Dkyo 
The children of Henry and Margaret Wamboom were : 

Debora, b. January 27, 1717; m. Petrus Ostrander, Febru- 
ary 19, 1749. New Hurley. 

Peter, Jr., b. November 9. 1718: ni. Eliz. Helm, January 
14, 1765. Tuthill. 

Isaac, b. March 11, 1723; m. Agatha Freer. 

Benjamin, b. May 30, 1725: m. Jcnnek Van Vliet, Novem- 
ber 10. 1 75 1. Bontecoe. 

Johannis, b. November 6, 1726; m. Sara \'an Wagcncn, 
November 20, 1756. Springtown. 

Christoffcl. b. February 4. 1728: m. Debora "^'an Vliet. 
Springtown. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 517 

Haggetta, b. October 19, 1729; 111. Jobii iM'ccr. Ma\- 5. '7'J9- 
Buntecoe. 

Henricus, b. 1731 ; ni. VAv/.. llccni, October 13. 1753; burie<l 
at Highland, 1805. 

Sarah, b. September 16, 1733; m. Isaac \'an Wagenen. 

David, b. January 9, 1 739- 
Th e Children of Abrajiam Hasurouck, the Patentee 

Abraham Hasbrouck with his wife, Maria Deyo. emigrated 
in 1675 and settled at Kingston, 1676. Their children were: 

Anna, b. October 9, 1682; d. young. 

Joseph, b. January 28, 1684; m. Elsie Schoonmaker (daugh- 
ter of Joachim), October 27, 1706. Guilford. 

Solomon, b. October 6, 1686; m. Sara \'an Wagenen, April 
7, 1 72 1. New Paltz (Middletown). 

Jonas, b. October 14, 1691 ; probably d. young. 

Daniel, b. June 23, 1692; m. Wyntje Deyo (daughter of 
Abm.), April 2, 1734; d. June, 1759. New Paltz (Village). 

Benjamin, b. May 31, 1696; m. Jannetje DeLange, Febru- 
ary 13, 1737. Dutchess county. 

Rachel (probably the oldest child) ; m. Louis DuRois. Janu- 
ary 19. 1 70 1. 

Chh.uren of Joseph Hasbrouck 
The children of Joseph and Elsie Schoonmaker were : 

Abraham, b. October 19, 1707: m. Catharine Bruyii. Janu- 
ary 5. 1739. Kingston. 

Sarah, b. February 18, 1709; m. William Osterhoudt. 

Isaac, b. March 17. 1712; m. Antje Low (widow of John 
Van GasbcckV Shawantrunk. south of Tuthill. 



5l8 HISTORY or Mi If I'ALTZ 

Mary. b. January lo. 1714: m. ist. John (iasherie ; m. 2d. 
Abni. Hardenbcrj^;. 

Petronella, b. Decfmht-r 25, 1710; \\\. Simon LeFevre. June 
24. 1735. New Paltz (Village). 

Rachel, b. Xovember 11. 171 5: ni. Jan Eltinge. 

Jacob, b. May 5. 1717: m. Mary Hornbcck. October 17. 
1 746. Kyserike. 

Benjamin, b. June 28, 1719; m. Ellidia Schoonmaker. Sha- 
wangunk (Borden Home Farm). 

Cornelius, b. September 5. 1720. 

Jonathan, b. April 12, 1722; m. Catli. Duliois ( dau^hti-r of 
Cor's), May, 1751. Xewburgh. 

Children of Solomon Hasbrouck 

The children of Solomon and Sarah \'an W'agenen were : 

Abraham, Jr.. b. Marcli 11, 1722; m. Rachel Sleight, June 
28, 1749. 

Jacobus, b. January 3. 1725; d. in infancy. 

Jacobus, b. January 1, 1727; m. Divertje Van Wagenen, 
March 19. 1755. 

John, b. February 1. 17.30; m. Rachel \'an Wagenen, De- 
cember 24. 1763. 

Daniel, b. October iS, 1732 (no records). 

Simon, b. December 2^, 1735. 

Petrus. b. August 20. 1738; m. Sarah I'evior (daughter of 
Abraham), October 25, 1765. New Paltz. 

Flias, b. June 21. 1741 : m. Flizabeth Sleight. Kingston. 

( "11 ii.i»i<i;.N (II l)\.\ii;i. II A.'^iiNorcK 

The children of Daniel and W'yntje Deyo were: 
Maria, b. January (). 1735. 



HISTOKV Of NEW i'ALTZ 519 

Jonas, b. May 16, 1736; ni. Catharine UuHois, August 1, 

1765- 

Josaphat, b. April 29, 1739; ni. Cornelia DuBois. Plattekill. 

David, b. June 8, 1740; ni. Maritje tlauj^hland. New Paltz, 
Hutterville. 

Elsie, b. July 4, 1742; ni. Petrus Sniedes. Hurley. 

Rachel, b. October 30, 1743. 

Isaiah, b. April 13. 1746; m. Mary Bevier (daughter of 
Abin.). New Paltz. 

Benjamin, b. January 31, 1748; ni. 1st, Antje Bevier; in. 
2d, Maria Bevier. New Paltz. 

Zachariah, 1). June 24. 1749; m. Rebecca Waring. 

Children of Benjamin Hasbrouck 

The children of Benjamin and Jannetje DeLange were: 

Daniel. 

Benjamin. 

John. 

Jacob. 

Mary, m. John Halstead. 

Heiltje, m. Dr. Nathaniel House. 

Francis, m. Elizabeth Brinkerhoflf. 

The Children of Jean Hasbrouck. the Patentee 
The children of Jean Hasbrouck and Anna Deyo were : 

Mary, b. ; ni. Isaac DuBois (son of Louis). 1683. 

New Paltz (Village). 

Hester, b. ; m. Peter (iunia?r. .April 1. 1692. Mini- 
sink. 



520 HISTORY OF XEW PALTZ 

Abraham, b. .March 7,\, 1078 (went abroad and never re- 
turned. See will.) 

Isaac, b. April 17, 1680; d. before 171 2. (See will.) 

Elizabeth, b. February 25. 1685: ni. Louis Bevier, June 2, 
1 71 3. Marbletown. 

Jacob, b. April 15, 1688: m. Hester Bevier (daughter of 
Louis 1st), December 14. 1717. New Paltz (X'illage). 

Children of Jacob Hasbrouck 
The children of Jacob and Hester Bevier were: 

Jan, b. December 16. 1716; d. young. 

Benjamin, b. April 17. 171Q: d. (")ctol)er 14. 1747. (Killed 
by a falling tree.) 

Isaac, b. March 11, 1722: m. Maria Bruyn. August 30. 1745. 
Marbletown. 

Lowies, b. February 21, 1725; d. in infancy. 

Jacob, b. May 7. 1727; m. Jannetje DuBois. April 12. 1756. 
New Paltz. 

Children ok Isaac Hasbrol'ck 
The children of Isaac and Maria Bruyn were : 

Jacob I., b. September 28, 1746; m. Sarah DuBois (daugh- 
ter of Cor's). Calbergh, Marbletown. 

John. b. ; m. Mary Hasbrouck (daughter of Jacob 

A.). Rest Place, Marbletown. 

Jacobus, b. February 19. 1749; d. in infancy. 

Jacobus Bruyn. b. December i. 1753; m. Ann Abeel. High 
Falls. 

Severyn, b. January i, 1756; m. ist. Maria Depew ; m. 2d, 
Nancy Concklin. Stone Ridge. 



HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 521 

Maria, b. February 5, 1758; m. Cor's Stihvcll. Stone Ridge. 

Esther, b. January 8, 1760; m. Abm. Sahler. High Falls. 

Catharine, b. August 12, 1762; m. ist, Patterson; m. 2d, 
AVigton. Stone Ridge. 

Benjamin, b. January 8, 1764; m. ist. Catrina Smedes ; m. 
2d. Rachel Hasbrouck. Kyserikc. 

Louis, b. February i, 1767; ni. Catharine Decker. Stone 
Ridge. 

Anna, b. June 23, 1769; d. in infancy. 

Children of Jacob Hasbrouck 
The children of Jacob and Jannetje DuBois were: 

Hester, b. May 18, 1752; m. Dr. Geo. Wurts. New Paltz. 
Josiah, b. March 5, 1755; m. Sarah Decker. New Paltz. 
Lowies, b. July 26, 1758; d. in infancy. 
Jacob J., b. October 25, 1767; m. ist, Margaret Hardenberg; 
m. 2d. Ann DuBois. New Paltz. 

The Children of Louis Bevier, the P.\tentee 
The children of Louis Bevier and Maria LalUan were: 

Maria, b. July 19, 1674; d. in infancy. 

Jean. b. January 2, 1676; ni. Cath. Montanyc. April 14, 
1 71 2. Wawarsing. 

Abraham, b. January 20, 1678; ni. Rachel V'ernooy, Febru- 
ary 18, 1707. Wawarsing. 

Samuel, b. Jainiary 21, 1680: ni. Magdalcna BlanjeaiL New 
Paltz. 

Andries. b. July 12. 1682. Unmarried. 

Louis, b. November 16. 1684: m. Elizabeth Hasbrouck 
Cdaughter of Jean). May 5. 1713- 



522 HISTORY OF XKll PALTZ 

Esther, h. Xovember, 1686; ni. Jacob Hashrouck (son of 
Jean). 

Solomon, 1). |iil\ 12. i<>89: d. in intanc\. 

Children ov Jhan IWcmkk 

The children of Jean and Catharine Alontanye were: 

Maria, b. March i, 1713; d. in infancy. 

Elenora, b. March 23. 1714; m. Henj. Rolscher. W awarsing^. 

Elizabeth, b. February 10, 1717; ni. Isaac Bevier (son of 
Samuel ) . 1715. Wawarsing. 

Johanna, b. May 15. 1720: m. Michael Sax. Aj^ril 23. 1753. 
Wawarsing. 

Ester, b. September 23. 1722; m. .Solomon \Vestl)rook. May 
4. 1748. Alinisink. 

Louis J., 1). October 18, 1724. Cnmarried. (See will.) 
Wawarsing. 

Jesse, b. May 11. 1721;; m. Elizabeth Hoffman. Wawarsing.. 

Cinu)i<i-:x OK Aukauam 1'>i:\ii:k 
The chiUlren of Abraham and Rachel X'ernooy were : 

Louis, b. 1708; d. before 1750. Xo heirs. (See will.) 

Anna, b. May 17, 1710; d. in infancy. 

Cornelius, b. July 20. 1712; d. after 1770. .Apparently un- 
married. 

Sanuiel. 1). August 28. 1715: m. Sarah LehVvre (daughter 
of Andries), June 10, 1739. Wawarsing. 

Jacobus, b. September 28, 1717: m. .Anna \'ernooy. l'"el)ru- 
ary 23, 1757. Wawarsing. 

Abraham, b. January 10. 1720: d. aged 18. 



HISTORY OF NEW PAI.TZ 323 

Maria. 1). January jS, 1722; 111. lU-nj. Dul'.dis. ]\\\\c 20, 1755. 
New Paltz. 

Johannes, b. April 20, 1724; m. 1st, Rachel LeFevre, August 
10. 1747; 111. 2(1, Elizabeth \ an N'liet. September 18, 1764. 
Wawarsing. 

Benjamin, b. May 7, 1727; m. Eliz. VaiiKeureu ( dauj^hter 
of Tjerck), December 13, 1760. Wavvarsing. 

Daniel. 

Children ok Samukl Bi:vii:r 

The children of Sanuiel IJevier and Ma,n<lalena Clanjeau 
were : 

Solomon, b. May 13, 171 1 ; d. young. 

Abraham S.. b. June 14, 1713; m. Margaret Kiting (daugh- 
ter of Rcelof). January 22, 1742. New Paltz (Butterviile). 

Isaac, b. December 25, 1714: m. b.liz. IJevier (daughter of 
Jean). Wawarsing. 

Jacobus, b. April 29, 1716; m. Antje Freer. New Paltz. 

Margaret, b. June 30, 1717; m. Matthew LeFevre. June 7. 
1737. Bloomingdale. 

Maria, b. October 5, 1718; m. Abm. LebVvre. Wawarsing. 

Louis S. I'nmarried. 

Esther, b. January 18, 1721 ;m. Cornelius l>rink. Shawangunk. 

Johannes, b. September 9, 1722; m. Magdalena LeFevre, 
September 2, 1748. Shawangunk. 

Philip, b. l"\'bruary 9. 1723; m. Tryntje Low. July 10, 1748. 
Shawangunk. 

Matthew, b. June 28, 1712; d. young. 

The only child of Louis lievier and Elizabeth llasbrouck was : 

Louis, b. .\pril 10, 1717; ni. Esther DuBois (daughter of 
Philip, d. October 7. 1790), October 24. 1745; d. .\pril 29. 
1772. Marbletown. They left fivr children. 



524 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 

The Children of Anthoine Crispel. the Patentee 
J'lic children of AiilhoiiK" Crisi)cl and Maria Blanslian were: 

Maria Maddaleen. b. February 15, 1OO2; m. Matthys Cor's 
Sleight. New Paltz. 

Pieter, b. December 21, 1664; m. Neeltje Gerretsen (ni. 2d 
husband, Joannes Schepmoes), February 18, 1697. 

Lysbet, b. October 3, 1666; d. in infancy. 

Lysbet, b. October 15, 1668; m. Elias Eijn. New Paltz. 

Sara. b. June 18. 1671 ; m. Huybert Suyland. 

Jan, b. July 24, 1674; d. young. 

Children of Second Wife 

Jannctjc, b. January 4. 1682; d. in infancy. 

Jan, b. October 12, 1684; m. Geetje Jans Roosa. 

Jannetje, b. February 7. 1686; ni. Xic's Hoffman. 

Children of Pieter Crispel 
The children of Pieter Crispel and Neeltje Gerretsen were: 

Antony, b. .\pril 17, 1692: m. Lea Roosa, September 11, 
Arriantje, b. June 31, 1694; m. Andries. March 20. 171 2. 

T719. 

Joannes, b. October zj, 1695: m. Anna Margaret Roosa, 

December 15. 1725. Hurley. 

CiiiLDRicN OF Jan Chrispel 
The children of Jan Chrispel and Geertje Jans Roosa were: 

Marytje, b. March 15, 1702: ni. Jacol) Hecrmancc, Ajiril 
28. 1725. 

Rebecca, b. March 17, 1706; d. ' 

.'\ntoine, b. Octol)er 12. 1707: m. Catrina Van Benthuysenr 



I 



.HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ 525- 

Helena, b- May ?> ^7^o; n^. Teunis Van Steenberg, April 

24, 1731- Kingston. 

Jan, b. September 21. 1712; m. Sara Janse. December 10, 
1736- m 2d, Maria Dorothea Kraft, December 29, I753- 

Peirus,b. January 24, 1727; ^n. Lea Roosa, January 14, ^743- 

Rebecca, b. April 7, 1717- 

Zara, b. November 26, 172 1. 

Children of Anthony Chrispel 
The children of Anthony Chrispel (son of Peter) and Leah 
Roosa were : 

Petrus, b. May i, 1720; d. in infancy. 
. Neeltje, b. February 4, ^722; m- Dirk Roosa. 

Petrus, b. August n, 1723; m. Leah Roosa, January 14, i743- 

Johannes, b. November 8, 1724. 

Cornelius, b. September 4, 1726. 

Anna Margriet, b. December 22, 1728. 

Arriantje, b. October 8, 1732- 

Wilhelmus, b. August 17, i740- 

Children of Johannes Chrispel 
The children of Johannes (son of Peter) and Anna Margaret 
Roosa were: 

Petrus, b. November 26, 1727; ^^- y«""^- 
Aldert, b. November 10. 1728: d. young. 
Rachel, b. October i, 1732- 
Arriantje. b. August 25. 1734- 
Petrus, b. September 19, 1736- 
Elizabeth, b. September 24. ^73,^- 
Lea, b. December 14. i740- 
Allert, b. February 13. 1743- 
Toliannes. b. April 21. 174 = 



526 HISrOKY OF .\ ElV PALTZ 

Chilorkn ok Antoine Chrispel 

The children of Antoine (son of Jan) and Catharine Van 
Benthuysen were : 

Lidia. b. April 28. 1734. 
Geertje, b. October 3, 1736. 
Jan, b. May 28, 1738. 
Rebekka, b. October 12. 1740. 
Maria, b. October 10, 1742. 

CiiiLDRnx OF Tax Chrispel 

Jan married ist. Sarah janse: 2d. Maria Dorothea Kraft. 
The children were : 

FIRST WIFE 

Mayke. b. August ij. 1738. 
Jan, b. August 16. 1741. 
Thomas, b. Januar\' 22, 1744. 
Hendricus. b. June 21, 1745. 
Thomas, b. May 8. 1748. 

SI-XOND WIFE 

Matthens, b. December i. 1754. 

Sara, b. July 15, 1759. 

Matthens, Elisa [twins], b. November 17, 1761. 

David, b. November 26, 1763. 

Solomon, b. November 24, 1764. 

Childrfn v>\- Petrus Chrispel 

riu- children of l^ctrus and Lea Roosa were: 

Petrus. b. October 9, 1743. 
r.cnjamin. b. January 13, 1745. 



IIISI OKY OF NEW I'AL'I'Z 527 

Aiitliony. b. July 20. 1746. 
Abraham, b. March 5. 1749. 
Maria, b. February 24. 1751. 
Rachel, b. April i , 1 753. 
Rachel, b. October 13, 1754. 
Jacob, b. June 6, 1762. 

The Children of Hugo Frere, the Patentee 

Hugo Frere married ist. Mary Haye ; 2d, Jannetje Wibau. 
The children were : 

Hugo, ; m. Mary Ann Leroy, June 7, 1690. New 

Paltz. 

Abraham, ; m. Aagien Tietsorte, April 28, 1694. 

Isaac, b. 1672; d. August 9, 1690. 

Jacob, b. June 9. 1679; m. Antje Van Weyen, September, 
1 705. Bontecoe. 

Jean, b. April 16, 1682; m. Rebecca Wagencr. Kingston. 

Mary, ; m. Lewis Veille. Schenectady. 

Sarah. ; m. Tennis Clausen Van Volgen. Schenectady. 

Chh.dren of Hugo Frere 
The children of Hugo Frere and Mary Ann Leroy were : 

Hugo, Jr., b. October 14, 1691. Bontecoe. 
Isaac, b. May 21, 1693. New Paltz. 
Mary. b. May 31. 1696. 
Sarah, b. May 15, 1698. 
Fsthcr, b. October 15. 1699. 
l>cnjamin, b. October 20, I70(>. 
Rachel, b. November 10, 17 10. 
Jannctte. b. January 25, 171 3. 
Rlizabeth, b. May 2^. 1718. 



528 HISTORY OF NEIV PALTZ 

Children or Abraham Freer 

ihc cliiUlren of Abraham Freer and Aagien Tietsorte 
were : 

Maeltje, b. May 5, 1606. New Paltz. 
Abraham, b. October 31, 1697. Kingston. 
Solomon, b. October 23, 1698; m. Klaartje Westvall, Sep- 
tember 22. 1721. Minnesink. 
Willem, b. January 14, 1700. 
Jelena, b. January 16, 1704. 
PhilHpus, b. August 16, 1706. 
Sara, b. October 12, 1707. 
Naritje, b. September 11, 1709. 
Jacomyntje, b. November 4. 171 1. 
Aagien, b. April 11, 1714. 
Johanna, b. November 13. 1715. 
Catryntjcn. b. January 11, 1719. 

Children of Jacob Frere 

The children of Jacob Frere and Antje Van Weyein 
were : 

Jannetje, b. October 20, 1706. 

Sarajte, b. September 11, 1709. 

Abraham, Isaac [twins], b. February 2";. 1715. 

Jacob, b. January 2^, 171 7. 

Maritje, Annatje [twins], b. January 3, 1720. 

Antjen, b. April 2, 1721. 

Jacob, b. September i, 1723. 

Daniel, b. January 2, 1726. 

Cornclis. b. June 29, 172G. 



HISTORY OF NEW FALTZ 529 

The Children of Simon LeFevre, the Patentee 

Simon LeFevre married Elizabeth Deyo (whose second hus- 
band was Moses Cantain). He died about 1690. The children 
were : 

Andries, ; m. Cornelia Blanjean. New Paltz (Vil- 
lage.) 

Abraham, b. May 11, 1679; died before his father. 

Isaac, b. August 5, 1683; m. Maritje Freer, May 16, 1718. 
New Paltz (Bontecoe). 

Jan, b. October 28, 1685; m. Catharine Blanjean, November 
20, 1712. New Paltz (Plains). 

Maritje, b. October 15, 1689; m. Daniel DuBois, June 18, 
1 71 3. Xew Paltz (Village). 

Children of Andries LeFevre 
The children of Andries and Cornelia Blanjean were: 

Simon, b. September 11, 1709; m. Pieternella Hasbrouck, 
June 24. 1725. New Paltz (Village). 

Matthens, b. April 10, 1710; m. Margaret Bevier, June 17, 
1737. Rosendale (Bloomingdale). 

Elizabeth, b. September 8, 1712; m. Jonathan DuBois (son 
of Louis). December 2},, 1732. Nescatack. 

Margaret, b. March 13. 1715: m. Conraed Vernooy. June 10, 
1739. W'awarsing. 

Zara. b. February 3, 1717; m. Samuel Bevier, June 10. 1739. 

Maritje. b. March i, 1719; m. Nathaniel LeFevre. New 
Paltz (Plains). 

Catarina. b. April 2, 1721 ; m. Simon DuBois. New Paltz 
(Village). 



S30 HISTORY OF SEW PALTZ 

Magdalena, b. October ii. 1724: m. Johannis Be\-ier, Sep- 
tember 2. 1749. Shawangunk. 

Benjamin. 

Rachel, b. Jvme 27^, 1728; m. Jobs Be\-ier, September 2, 1749. 
^\'awa^smg. 

Children of Isaac LeFen-re 

Isaac LeFevre married Maritje Frere. The children were : 

Isaac, b. December 14, 17 18; died unmarried. 

Peter, b. Februan.- 19, 1721 ; m. Elizabeth \'emooy, Janu- 
ary.- 2, 1760. Xew Paltz (Bontecoe). 

Johannes, b. November 18, 1722 : m. Sarah Vemooy. May 
29, 1752. Xew Paltz (Bontecoe). 

Daniel, b. November 8. 1725: m. Catharine Cantine. New 
Paltz (Bontecoe). 

Simon, b. November 10, 172S; died young. 

Man.-, b. March 20. 1732: m. Johannes Hardenberg, Jr. 
Swart ekill. 

Simon, b. December 17, 173S: died young. 

Children of J.\n LeFe\-re 
The children of Jan LeFe\Te and Catharine Blanshan were : 

Margaret, b. December 20. 1713: d. young. 

Abraham, b. March 25. 1716; m. Maria Bevier. New Paltz 
(Kettleborough). 

Elizabeth, b. October 2. 171 7. 

Nathaniel, b. November 2. 1718; ra. Maritje LeFevre. New 
Paltz (Plains). 

Andries J., b. March 18. 1722: m. Rachel DuBois (daughter 
of Nathaniel \ October 20. 1745- New Paltz ( Kettleborough t. 

Margaret, b. February 9. 1724: m. ist. Jacob Hoffman: m. 
2d. A>^-^ T;;?.'Vir^.'-.U ^^:^wangunk. 



INDEX 



AbeeL Ann. wife of Jacobas Bnjrn Hai-brouck. ^oc'. 

ActttDoerrv i - -' .-•^v». Christian g6 

Ai-^'- -^ 325 

Ar— .>:r- .-^ert Jaootisoa 482 

Arn- r. ."i: . iL aou oi Aot Jacobson 4&2 

A-.- :..^-i ^ 

-Lrczre:. ; ' John Bener j^C' 

L-3.r.— sis Da B(M5 jd 317 

- ^ «v;:e of Lxmis Hasbroock 386 

II, iz, 14, 368. 481 

536 

451 

:oi. 451 

-95- loi 

soldier in Rertdnc : : 451 

451 

Anc da. of James 451 

Ancr 'Tames 451 

r -. Margaret Irwin. 452 

^ ^ ^ ^39, 451, 516 

iham 452 

451 

wife of Samnel Bener. .Z46, 247. 451 

:2? 452 

.\— ;>iui. I— c'ui. .^kr^:^ .. 538 

resigns >29 

Bakeman (Be^man). Mardims 96 

Bar."'-- ~--' -"ne, da. of Jostus. wife oi Loois Hasbroock . "'^- 

Bar- : 5 

Bar res. da. of Peter 5 

Bi-r- -- " ~- ilic» 

? - ^ ' ^s -rv^fe ~f T~-r S. Hasbroock job 

rla sb foodc 406 

* ^3 

- Comelins Hasbroack. . . 106 

m. Esther Gnmaer Bevier. . jfi 

:...... jcorge de Ranke 500 

?;_-: Com. Gen. of Prisoners 535 

r •- :.::-. - _ •.:. 4th Penna Line ^4.: 

-. ver. R.V. X 

F::ker. A'f-?^ !-eR-y 

?'r '■ '- . iaien Van Wagenc -"» 

p^.;-i- 



532 IND-EX 

PACK 

Beem, Elikabcth, wife of Hendricus Deyo 2d 276, 517 

Beesmer, Annie, wife of John \V. Deyo 277 

Belknap, 2d, Mr. Isaac 327 

Bell, Rachel, wife of Lewis LeFevre 430 

Bessimer, Dorothy, 2d wife of Abram Elting 494 

Betts, Lieut. James 331, 342 

Bevier, Abagail. da. of Abraham, wife of David McKinstry 240 

Bevier, Abram i. 75 

Bevier, Abraham, soldier in 1715 117 

Bevier, Abraham, son of Abraham 98, 235, 522 

Bevier, Abraham, son of Abraham A 246 

Bevier, Abraham, son of Jacob, m. i, Margaret LeFevre; 2, Aba- 
gail \'anderbilt,; 3, widow Sarah Vernooy 236-7, 239 

Bevier, Abraham, son of Louis ist, m. Rachel Vernooy 

226, 233. 235, 521 

Bevier, Abraham, son of Mathew 239 

Bevier, Abraham, son of Samuel, son of Louis ist, m. Margaret 

Elting 98, 230, 243, 244. 484. 523 

Bevier, Abraham, Jun., son of Samuel, m. Maria DuBois. .236, 239, 318 

Bevier, Abraham A 229 

Bevier, Abraham A., son of Abraham, m. Maria Freer 244 

Bevier, Abraham A., son of Andries, m. Ann Perrine 238 

Bevier, Abraham Bourbon, son of David 250 

Bevier, Abraham J., son of Capt. Andries 229 

Bevier, Abraham J., son of Johannes, m. Jenneke Vernooy 238, 242 

Bevier, Abraham Solomon, son of Solomon 245 

Bevier, A. Deyo 268 

Bevier, Alexander, son of Jacob J 241 

Bevier, A. L. R 230 

Bevier, Andre, son of Louis 226, 233, 411, 521 

Bevier, Andries, son of Abraham, m. Mary Deyo 239 

Bevier, Andries, son of Samuel, m. Jacomyntje DuBois 236, 238 

Bevier, Andries of Wawarsing, m. Jacomintje DuBois 310 

Bevier, Capt. Andries 227 

great-great-grandson of Louis the Patentee, great-grand- 
son of Abraham 229 

Bevier, Andries LeFevre 237 

Bevier. Andrew 268 

Bevier, Andrew, .son Simon, m. Martha J. Shaver 241 

Bevier. Ann, da. of Benjamin 243 

Bevier, Anna. da. of Abraham, dies young 235. 522 

Bevier, .Anne. da. of Jacob, wife of John DuBois 237 

Bevier. Ann Elizabeth, da. of John, wife of DeWitt Depuy 235 

Bevier, Antje. da. of Elias 243 

Bevier, Antje. da. of Jacobus, wife of Benjamin Hasbrouck 246 

Bevier, Antje, da. of Samuel 247 

Bevier, Benjamin 230 

Bevier, Benjamin, son of Abraham, m. Elizabeth Van Keuren. .. . 

236, 238, 523 

Bevier. Benjamin, son of Benjamin, ni. Leah Roosa 238, 242 

Bevier. Dr. Benjamin R 229 

Bevier. Dr. Rcnianiin Rush, son of Dr. Benjamin R 22Q 

Bevier. Benjamin Rosa, son of Conrad, m. Catharine Ten Eyck. .. 240 

Bevier. Blandina. da. of Jesse, wife of William Bodley 234 

Bevier. Blandina, da. of Louis 251 



INDfiX 533 

PACE 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of David, wife of Stephen Still well 250 

Bevier, Catherine, da. of Jacob, wife of Peter Jansen 237 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of Jacob, wife of Luther Sawtell 247 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of Jacob J 241 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of Jesse, wife of Benjamin Depuy 234 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of Joseph 252 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of Louis, wife of Oliver G. DuBois 251 

Bevier, Catharine, da. of Philip 245 

Bevier, Catharine, 2d wife of Mathusalem DuBois 312 

Bevier, Catrint j e, da. of Petrus 249 

Bevier. Caty, da. of John 235 

Bevier, Caty, da. of Solomon 246 

Bevier, Charity, da. of Solomon ' 246 

Bevier, Charles, son of David 233, 235 

Bevier, Christian, son of -Samuel, m. Magdalena Freer ." 247 

Bevier, Conrad, bro. of Capt. Andries 229 

Bevier, Conrad, son of Cornelius, m. Sarah Vernooy 240 

Bevier, Conrad, son of Johannes, m. Elizabeth Roosa 237. 240 

Bevier, Cornelia, da. of Abraham 240 

Bevier. Cornelia, da. of Johannes, wife of Petrus Bevier. ..237, 245, 249 

Bevier, Cornelia, da. of Johannes, wife of Noah LeFevre 245 

Bevier, Cornelia, da. of Samuel, wife of, i, Mathew Newkirk; 2. 

Peter Bevier 236 

Bevier, Cornelia, wife of Noah LeFevre 431 

Bevier, Cornelius 229 

Bevier. Cornelius, son of Abraham 233, 524 

Bevier. Cornelius, son of Andries, m. Susan Nottingham 2.38 

Bevier. Cornelius, son of Capt. Andries 227 

Bevier. Cornelius, son of Jacob J 241 

Bevier, Cornelius, son of Johannes, m. i, Sarah Bevier; 2, Cornelia 

^'ernooy 237, 240 

Bevier, Cornelius, son of Mathew 239 

Bevier. Cornelius, son of Samuel 247 

Bevier, Daniel, son of Abraham 236. •i2'^ 

Bevier. David, son of Andrew 268 

Bevier. David, son of Jacob J 241 

Bevier. David, son of Johannes, m. Sarah Bevier 238. 239. 242 

Bevier. David, son of Jesse, m. Sally Gicr 234. 235 

Bevier. David, son of Joseph 233 

m. Deborah Lockwood 252 

Bevier. David, son of Louis 3d. Adjt. Pawling's Regiment 232 

m. Maria Hasbrouck 249. 250 

Bevier. David, m. Polly Kiting 497 

Bevier. Dr. Dubois 268 

Bevier. Eleanor, da. of Joseph. 2d wife of Russell Holmes 252 

Bevier. Elenora, da. of Jean, wife of Benj. Rolscher 234. 522 

Bevier. Elias. son of Jacobus, m. Sarah LeFevre 247. 248 

Bevier. Elias. son of Philip 245 

Bevier. Elias. m. LeFevre 438 

Bevier. Elijah, son of Simon, m. Elizabeth Bevier 241 

Bevier. Eliza, da. of Isaac 244 

Bevier. Eliza, da. of Samuel 247 

Bevier. Elizabeth, da. of Abraham, wife of Samuel Bevier 233. 239 

Bevier. Elizabeth, da. of Abraham T.. wife of. i. ^To<;e^ Bevier; 2. 

Cliarles Shiilt/ 242 



534 INDEX 

PACE 

Bevier, Elizabctli, da. of Benjamin, wife of Luke Dewitt 242 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Elias 248 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Jacob 237 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Jean, wife of Isaac Bevier. killed by In- 
dians in Revolution 227, 234, 243, 244, 522 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Louis, wife of Joseph Hasbrouck 250 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Louis, wife of Peter Van Dyck 252 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Philip D. B 251 

Bevier, Elizabeth, da. of Samuel, wife of Arthur Morris 236 

Bevier, Elizabeth, wife of Elijah Bevier 241 

Bevier, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Bevier 383 

Bevier, Elizabeth L., wife of Henry Deyo 277 

Bevier. Elizabeth Hoffman, da. of David 235 

Bevier, Elizabeth Lynot, da. of Nathaniel, wife of Henry Deyo. .. . 248 

Bevier, Esther, da. of Abraham 244 

Bevier. Esther, da. of David 250 

Bevier, Esther, da. of Jean, wife of Solomon Westbrook 234, 522 

Bevier, Esther, da. of Louis 39, 250 

wife of Jacob Hasbrouck 227, 233, 400, 522 

Bevier. Esther, da. of Philip D. R., wife of Philip Hasbrouck 250 

Bevier, Esther, da. of Samuel, wife of Cornelius L. Brink 243. 523 

Bevier. Esther Gumaer, da. of Louis, wife of G. W. Basten 251 

Bevier. Ezekiel, son of Jacob, m. Helen Van Bumble 243 

Bevier. Hasbrouck, son of David 233 

Bevier. Henrietta Cornelia, da. of Philip D. B.. wife of James Has- 
brouck 251 

Bevier, Henry, son of Jacob 243 

Bevier. Hilletje. da. of Philip D. B 250 

Bevier. Hylah. da. of Philip D. B.. wife of Levi Hasbrouck 251 

Bevier. Isaac, son of Abraham A 246 

Bevier, Isaac, son of Jacob, m. Mary York 247 

Bevier, Isaac, son of Jean 234 

Bevier, Isaac, son of Samuel 230 

m. cousin, Elizabeth Bevier 227, 243, 523 

Bevier, Jacob, son of Abraham, m. Anna Vcrnooy 235, 236, 522 

Bevier, Jacob, son of Jacobus, dies young 246 

Bevier, Jacob 2d. son of Jacobus, m. Maria York 246. 247 

Bevier, Jacob Hornbeck. son of Abraham J., m. Sarah Devine 242 

Bevier. Jacob J., son of Johannes, m. Margaret DeWitt 237, 241 

Bevier, Jacobus, son of Samuel, son of Louis ist 98 

Bevier. Jacobus, son of Jacob, m. Mary Yandel 247 

Bevier, Jacobus, son of Samuel 230. 247 

m. Antje Freer 243 

Bevier. Jacobus, elected constable of New Paltz 300 

Bevier. Jacomyntje, da. of Abram S., wife of Mathew Bevier.. .236, 244 

Bevier, Jan, soldier in 1715 117 

Bevier, Jane, da. of Conrad, wife of Moses C. Depuy 240 

Bevier. Jane. da. of Louis, wife of Edgar Hasbrouck 251 

Bevier. Jane Newkirk. da. of Jonas, wife of Annanius VVinfield.. . 249 

Bevier, Jane Vernooy. da. of Nathaniel, wife of Abraham Elting. . 248 

Bevier, Jannet , da. of Andries 238 

Bevier, Jannetje, da. of Benjamin, wife of Jophat Hoornbeck 242 

Bevier, Jannetje, da. of Jacobus, wife of John York 247 

Bevier, Jean, son of Louis ist. m. Catharine Montanye 

226. 233. 234. 522 



INDEX 535 



PACK 



Bcvicr, Jcnnekc. d;i. of Abraham J., wife of John A. Snyder 242 

Bevier, Jenniko, da. of Ehas 248 

Bevicr, Jcnneke, da. of Jacob 236 

Bevier. Jeremiah, son of Jacob, m. Wynlje Smith 248 

Bevier, Jesse, son of Jean, m. EHzabeth HofTman 234, 522 

Bevier, Johanna, da. of Jean, wife of Michael Sax, killed by 

Indians in Revolution 227, 234, 522 

Bevier, Johannes, son of Abraham, m. i, Rachel LeFevre; 2, Eliza- 
beth Gonzalez Van Vliet 235, 523 

Bevier, Johannes of Wawarsing, son of Abraham, m. i, Rachel 

LeFevre 4^7 

2, Cornelia Vernooy 237 

Bevier, Johannes, son of Cornelius 229 

Bevier, Johannes, son of Cornelius, m. Elizabeth Tearhout 240 

Bevier, Johannes, son of Daniel 242 

Bevier, Johannes, son of Jean, dies young 234 

Bevier, Johannes, son of Samuel 230 

m. Magdalen LeFevre 243, 523 

Bevier, Johannes Dewitt. son of Jacob J 241 

Bevicr, Johannes Dewitt, son of Jonas. 249 

Bevier, Rev. Johannes Hornbeck 229 

Bevier, Johan Vernooy, son of Elias 248 

Bevier, John ^ 

Bevier, John, son of Jesse, m. Martha Green 234, 235 

Bevier. John, son of Solomon, m. i, Hannah Smith; 2, Margaret 

Anable 246 

Bevier, John Hardenbergh 230 

Bevier, Jonas, son of Johannes, m. Maria Dewitt 245, 249 

Bevier. Jonathan, son of Abraham 239 

Bevier, Jonathan, son of Jacob, m. Judith Low 243 

Bevier, Jonathan, son of Johannes 245 

Bevier, Jonathan, son of Jonas, m. Hanna LeFevre 249 

Bevier, Joseph, son of David, son of Joseph 233 

Bevier, Joseph, son of David, m. Catharine Hasbrouck 250. 252 

Bevier, Joseph, son of David son of Louis 3d r ■■ ■ • ^ ~^~ 

Bevier Tosiah, son of Andries, m. i, Hannah Brmkerhoft; 2. 

Leah Bevier 238-9. 240 

Bevier, Josiah, son of Isaac -44 

Bevier, Josiah, son of Samuel •• ••• • •■ •• -•• •. -^7 

Bevier. Katrintje. da. of Abraham, witc of Mathusalem DuBois. . . 244 

Bevier. Katrintje. da. of Isaac, wife of Abraham Jansen 244 

Bevier. Leah. da. of Conrad. 2d wife of Josiah Bevier 239. 240 

Bevier. Leah. da. of Jacob J • •; • - ;;;• ~^V. 

Bevier. Lea. da. of Jesse, wife of Wm. W. DeWitt 234 

Bevier. Leah Dewitt, da. of Jonas • • • 240 

Bevier, Lena, da. of Abraham, wife of Simon Muiler 240 

Bevicr. Levi, son of Benjamin 242 

Bevicr, Lewis • • ^ I'^yj 

Bevier. Lewis. Ensign New Paltz Foot Company H/. 300 

Bevier. Ensign Lewis. Jun., of New Paltz Company 1717 "« 

Bevier Lewis, son of .\ndries. m. Garretje Van Keuren 230 

Bevier Lewis, son of Benjamin, m. Gertrude Smeedes y ' ■ w ^ 

Bevier. Louis, the Patentee. . .33, 52. 62. 89. 91. 92. 106. 309. 362. 383. 4»5 

m. Marie LeBlanc 225. 233. 509 

Bevier. Lnui'^. m. Elizabeth Hasbrouck 4«> 



53^^ INPRX 

PACE 

Bevier, Louis, Jun., and Rachel Hasbrouck married 42 

Bevier, Louis, son of David 232 

m. Maria Eltinge 233, 250, 251 

Bevier, Louis J., son of Jean 234 

Bevier, Louis. 2d, son of Louis the Patentee 75 

baptized 38 

m. Elizabeth Hasbrouck 226. 233, 249 

Bevier, Louis, son of Louis 250 

Bevier, Louis, 3d, son of Louis 2d. m. Esther DuBois 

^ : 230, 232, 249, 293. 523 

Bevier, Louis, son of Louis, m. Catharine Van Dyck 251-2 

Bevier. Louis, Jun 233, 294 

Bevier. Louis Du Bois. son of Philip D. B.. m. Charity Hornbeck. . 251 

Bevier, Dr. Louis D. B.. son of Col. Philip 232 

Bevier. Louis S., son of Samuel 243 

Bevier, Lucas, son of Conrad 240 

Bevier. Lydia. da. of Elias 248 

Bevier. Lydia, da. of Samuel 247 

Bevier. Magdalen, da. of Abraham, wife of Mathew Decker 244 

Bevier. Magdalen, da. of Elias 248 

Bevier. Magdalena. da. of Isaac 244 

Bevier. Magdalena. da. of Jacobus, wife of Jonas Freer 246 

Bevier. Magdalena. da. of Johannes, wife of Jan Hoffman 245 

Bevier. Magdalen, da. of Jonas 249 

Bevier. Magdalen, da. of Nathaniel, wife of Charles Elting 243 

Bevier. Magdalen, da. of Philip, wife of Abraham Du Bois 245 

Bevier. Magdalena. da. of Simon 241 

Bevier. Magdalen Du Rois. da. of Louis, wife of Willct S. Northrop 231 

Bevier, Margaret, da. of Mathew 239 

Bevier, Margaret, da. of Samuel, wife of Mathew LeFevre 243. 523 

Bevier. Margaret, da. of Simon, wife of Andries Dcwitt 241 

Bevier. Margriet j e, da. of Solomon 246 

Bevier, Maria, da. of .\braham. wife of Benjamin DuBois 235 

Bevier, Maria, da. of Abraham, wife of Benjamin DuBois 523 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Abraham, wife of Isaac Hasbrouck 244 

Bevier. Maria, da. of .Abraham, wife of Andries I. LeFevre 239 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Benjamin 243 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Benjamin, ist wife of Simon Bevier. .237. 238, 241 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Conrad, wife of Simon Bevier 240 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Daniel 242 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Elias, wife of Gerrit Newkirk 248 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Jacob, wife of Ambrose Mitchell 247 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Jacobus. 2d wife of Benjamin Hasbrouck. . . . 247 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Johannes, wife of John t.. Hardenberg 237 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Louis ist, dies young 226. 233 

Bevier, Maria, da. of Louis, wife of Cornelius L. Van Dyck 251 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Samuel 247 

wife of .Miraham LeFevre 243. 430. 523 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Samuel, wife of Cornelius G. Vernooy 236 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Simon, wife of Stephen Dewitt 241 

Bevier. Maria, da. of Solomon 246 

Bevier. Maria, wife of Benjamin DuBois 299 

Bevier. Maria .Ann, da. of Philiii D. R.. wife f)f Cornelius C. Elting 251 
Bevier. Maria Vernooy. da. of Abraham J., wife of Daniel Elmore. 242 
Bevier. Marie, da. of Jean, dies young 234. 522 



INDEX -^T,-; 

PACE 

Bovicr, Maririctjc. da. of Abraham 240 

Bcvier, Marjitje. da. of Andrits 238 

Bcvier, Mary, wife of Benjamin Ilasbrouck ^^2 

Bcvier, Mary, wife of Isaiah Hasbrouck 371 

Bevier, Mary Ann. da. of Joseph, ist wife of Russell Holmes. . 252 

Bevier, Mary White, da. of David 235 

Bevier, Dr. Alathew 229 

Bevier, Mathew, son of Conrad, m. Cornelia Hardenbergh 240 

Bevier. Mathew, son of Jacob J 241 

Bevier, Mathew, son of Jacobus 246 

Bevier, ^latheus, son of Petrus 249 

Bevier. Mathew. son of Samuel 243. 523 

Bevier. Mathew. son of Samuel, m. Jacomyntje Bevier 236. 239. 244 

Bevier, Mo.ses, son of Benjamin, ni. Elizabeth Bevier 242 

Bevier, Nathan, son of Abraham J., m. Sarah Brannen 242 

Bevier, Nathaniel, son of Jacob J 241 

Bevier, Nathaniel, son of Johannes, m. Catharine Dewitt 245, 248 

Bevier, Nathaniel, son of Jonas 249 

Bevier. Nathaniel DuBois. son of Abraham 239 

Bevier. Neeltje. da. of Jonas, wife of Silas Winfield 249 

Bevier. Nelly, da. of Solomon 246 

Bevier. Noah, son of Solomon 246 

Bevier, Orville D . 230 

Bevier, Peter 265 

Bevier. Peter, son of Simon, m. Elizabeth Terwilliger 241 

Bevier. Peter, m. Cornelia Bevier. da. of Samuel, widow of Mathew 

Newkirk 236 

Bevier. Petrus. .son of Philip, m. Cornelia Bevier 237. 245. 249 

Bevier. Petrus LeFevre. son of Elias 243 

Bevier, Philip, son of David 250 

Bevier, Philip, son of Louis 3d, Col. in Revolution 232 

Bevier, Philip, son of Samuel 230 

m. Tryntje Low 243, 245, 523 

Bevier. Philip D. B.. son of Louis, m. Ann Dewitt 2S0 

Bevier. Capt. Phil. D. B 328. 331, 342 

Bevier. Philippus. son of Petrus 249 

Bevier, Rachel, da. of Abraham 239 

Bevier. Rachel, da. of Capt. Andries. wife of Henry J. BrinkerhofF 

229. 239 

Bevier, Rachel, da. of Jacob 237 

Bevier. Rachel, da. of Petrus 249 

Bevier. Rachel, da. of Philip D. B.. wife of Thomas R. Harden- 

burph 250-1 

Bevier. Rachel, da. of Samuel, wife of Johannes .A. DeWitt 236 

Bevier. Rachel, da. of Simon, wife of Peter Cantine 241 

Bevier, Reuben, son of Elias 248 

Bevier, Richard 268 

Btvicr, Richard Broadhead. son of Jacob J 229. 24r 

Bevier. Roelif. ^on of Solomon 245 

Bevier, Rnclif Elting. son >)f .Vbraham 244. 246 

Bevier. Sanuiel 7S- 92. 106. 299. 309 

Bevier. Samuel, soldier in 171 5 1 17 

Bevier. Samuel, soldier Ulster County Militia 1738 118 

Bevier, Samuel, son of .\braham 2.I0 

ni. Magdalen Blaniear .^^3 



55^ INDEX 

Bevier. Samuel, son of Abraham, m. Sarah LcFcvre. . .235, 236, 417, 522 

Bevier, Samuel, son of Andries. m. Elizabeth Bevier 238, 239 

Bevier. Samuel, son of Elias 248 

Bevier, Samuel, son of Jacobus, m. Rachel Auchmoody 246, 247 

Bevier. Samuel, son of Louis ist, ni. Magdalena Blanshan. .226, 233, 243 

Bevier. Samuel, son of Mathew 239 

Bevier. Samuel, son of Simon, m. Maria Van W'agenen 241 

Bevier. Sarah, da. of Abraham, wife of Johannes Freer, Jun. . . . 361 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Abraham, wife of Petrus Hasbrouck 244. 373 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Abraham, Jun.. wife of Daniel Bevier. .238, 239, 242 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Andries 238 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Cornelius, wife of Jacob Hcrmance 240 

Bevier. Sarah, da. of Jacob, wife of Cornelius Bevier 237. 240 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Jacobus, wife of Johannis Freer 247 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Johannes, wife of Manuel Gonsaulus 237 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Mathew 239 

Bevier, Sarah, da. of Nathaniel 248 

Bevier, Sarah (2), da. of Philip 245 

Bevier. Sarah Amelia, da. of Philip D. B., wife of Cornelius 

Bruyn 251 

Bevier, Sarah Vernooy, da. of Abraham J., wife of Silas Gillett. 242 

Bevier, Simeon, son of Jacobus 246 

Bevier. Simon 230 

Bevier. Simon, son of Cornelius, m. Maria Bevier 240 

Bevier. Simon, son of Jacob J 241 

Bevier, Simon, son of Johannes, m. i, Maria Bevier; 2. Eliza- 
beth Cantine 237, 238, 241 

Bevier, Simon, son of Simon 241 

Bevier, Solomon, son of Abraham, m. Elenor Griffin 244 

Bevier, Solomon, son of Isaac 244 

Bevier, Solomon, son of Louis ist 227, 233 

baptized 391 

Bevier. Solompn, son of Samuel 243. 523 

Bevier. Stephen, son of Jonas 249 

Bevier, Thomas, son of .Abraham A 246 

Bevier. Tjerck, son of Benjamin, m. Sarah Dcwitt. . 24^ 

Bevier. Wilhelmus. son of Andries, m. Annalje Hoornbeck 23S 

Bevier. Dr. William 230 

Bevier, Zacharias. son of .\braham A 246 

Bevier. . wife of Abraham DuBois 303 

Beynx. Ensign Thomas 331 

Birdsall. Lieut. Daniel 331, 342 

Birdsall. Hannah, wife of Isaac Hasbrouck 392 

Biveric. Laurens, quaere Bevier 15 

Blake. Capt. W. H. D. . 197, 305 

(Blanshan. Blancon, Rlanjcan.") 

Blanshan. Catharine, wife of Louis DuBois ist 6, 38, 280, 508 

captive of Indians 16 

m. Jean. Cottin 286 

Blanshan. Catherine, wife of Josiah Deyo 260 

Blanshan. Catharine, wife of Jean LeFevre 415 

Blanshan. Cornelia, wife of Andre LeFevre 415 

Blanshan. Elizabeth, da. of Matluw. wife of Peter Cornelius Low. . 468 

Blanshan, Magdalena. da. of Mathew. wife of Samuel Bevier 

226. 233. 243 



INDEX 539 



PACE 



Blanshan, ^laria, wife of Anthony CrispcU 503 

Blanshan, Mary, wife of Abram Hasbroiick Hi 

widow of Abram Hasbroiick, wife of Daniel LeFevre 443 

Blanshan, Mathcw 6. 7, 2«o 

m. Maddeleen Jorisse ^°7 

Blanshan, Mathew, Jun 7 

Bloomer, Deborah Ann, wife of Nathaniel DuBois 344 

Bodley, William, m. Blandina Bevier -34 

Bogardus, Dr. John, m. i. Gitty LeFevre 4+2 

2, Maria Eltinp: -^^i 

Bogardus, Rev. William R '^7 

Bontecoc School 279. 358 

Bradford, Major 3^7 

Brannen, Sarah, wife of Nathan Bevier 242 

Briggs, John ' ' ^ ^ 

Brink, Cornelius L.. m. Esther Bevier 243 

Brinkerhoflf. Capt. Abraham 394-5 

Brinkerhoflf, Gen. Roelif :•■•••. ,i^ 

Brinkerhoff, Hannah, ist wife of Josiah Bevier -30-9 

Brinkerhoflf, Henry J., m. Rachel Bevier. ■••■•••• ;^9 

Brinkerhoflf. Martha, 2d wife of John L. Hardenberg -27 

Brinkley. Lieut. Thomas ^^ 

Brister, Anthony • • • ■ ?; 

Brodhead, Abraham Deyo 29. 49. 201 

Brodhead. Andrew, son of John 442 

Brodhead, Ann, wife of Abraham Deyo 200 

Brodhead. C.. m. Dinah Elting ' '^ 1,, 

Brodhead. Charles S 

Brodhead, Henry, son of John 44 

Brodhead. Hester, wife of Josiah Elting 494 

Brodhead. John, m. Rachel LeFevre 44g 

Brodhead. John C ~ 

Brodhead. Wessel ^'^ 

Brown, . Major ■• -^ j. 

Brown. Deborah. 2d wife of Thomas Deyo -/« 

Brown. George C, m. Deyo -^^ 

Brun, Jacobus • ■ • • ■k'JA .r. 

Brundage, Martha J., wife of Wade Hampton Budd 454 

Bruvn. .\ndries .■ " Vr" \' " ' \ ^Ri 

Bruyn. Catharine, wife of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck 3^i 

Bruyn, Capt. ,-" ' V,' ' '• 2i;i 

Bruvn. Cornelius, m. Sarah Amelia Bevier. . _ -^s 

Bruvn, Gertrude, wife of Cornelius DuBois, Jun 3^ 

Bruyn. Gertrude, ist wife of Mathu.salem DuBois 3J- 

Bruyn, J ,00 

Bruvn. Tacobus ^ 

Bruvn. Lieut. -Col. Jacobus ^^ 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery *• -^^g 

Bruvn. T Jout.-Col. Jacobus S ■ 3" 

Bruvn. Maria, wife of Lsaac Hasbrouck ' 4uu 

Bruvn, Severvn. m. Margaret Habsrouck y- 

Bruvn. Zachariah. m. Elizabeth LeFevre . . 4- 

Bruvn , wife of Jeremiah Hasbrouck ■■••••• ^J\ 

Budd. Catharine, da. of Samuel, wite of Jonas LeFevre 453 

Budd. Catharine. i<t wife of Jonas X LeFevre 



k 



540 INDEX 

PACE 

Budd. Gertrude, da. of Samuel 453 

wife of Robert Lawson 45.1-4 

Budd, Hiram, son of Samuel, m. i, Maria Deyo ; 2, Catharine Ann 

Smedes 453 

Budd, John 454 

Budd, Joseph 454 

Budd, Laura, da. of Samuel 453 

wife of Joseph Harris 454 

Budd. Samuel, son of Thomas, m. Mary La Rue 453. 454 

Budd, Thomas, of Monmouth, N. J 453 

Budd, Wade Hampton, son of Samuel 451 

m. Martha J. Brundage 454 

Budd Family, History of 454 

Burhans. Catharine, wife of Major Isaac LeFevre 435 

Burhans, Jan 282 

Burnett, Lieut. John 331 

Burr, Aaron 53 

Campbell, Alexander 123 

Campbell, Col. 326 

( Cantinc. Cantain. Quantin. Quantyne.) 

Cantine, Catharine, granddaughter of Moses, wife of Daniel Le- 
Fevre 421, 433. 447 

Cantine, Elizabeth. 2d wife of Simon Bevier 237 

Cantine, Col. John 395. 420. 430. 457 

Cantine, Mathew, member of Council of Safety 440 

Quantin, Moses 42. 51. 362 

Cantain. Moses, m. Elizabeth Deyo, widow of Simon LeFevre 411 

Quantin, Moses. Lieut. New Paltz Foot Camp 117. 368 

Cantain. Peter, son of Moses 411 

Canting. Peter, m. Rachel Bevier 241 

Cantyn, Peter, soldier in Kingston Co. 1715 117 

Cantin, . son of Moses 41 

Carpenter. Nehemiah, (quartermaster) 330 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 33J 

Carshun. Catharine, wife of Mathias DuBois 317 

Chalker. Rev. Isaac 143 

Chambers. Abraham Gasbeck 3x5 

Chambers. Lydia. wife of Alvah Deyo 277 

Chambers. Thomas 14, 481 

Champlin. Jacob 319 

Charles IX of France 3 

Church at New Paltz i, 3, 59, 63, 91, 265 

281. .305, 322. 349. 351. 359, 360. .164. 418. 464. 477 

no tax allowed for building 164 

Confcrentie church 148. ,103. 311, 468. 477, 479. 486. 487. 491 

reunited with old church 151 

Clearwater (Klaarwater). Abraham 472 

Clearwater, .Abraham 92, 257 

son of Jacob 42 

Clearwater, Alphonso Trumpbour 473 

Clearwater, Charles Hiram 473 

Clearwater. Rev. Charles Knapp 473 

Clearwater. Elsie, wife of .Abraham Deyo 261, 513 

Clearwater. Hiram 472-.I 



INDEX 541 



TACE 



ClfaiwaUT, Jacob 89, 257 

ClearwaUr, Jacob, son of Theunis Jacobson, m. Mane Deyo. .. .471, 472 

Clearwater, Mary 257 

Clearwater, Thomas, soldier in Revolution 472 

Clearwater, Thomas Tennis, soldier in 1812 472 

Clearwater, Tunis Jacobson 89, 91, 470, 471 

Clinton, Charles 109 

Clinton, Gov. George 54, 325 

letters from . 327, 333, 336, 339 

Clinton, General Sir Henry 336 

letters from 337 

Clinton, Col. James 325 

Clapper, Cornelius 423 

Clapper, Henry 423 

Coates, John, Surgeon 328 

Coddington, Joseph, the schoolmaster 96, 102, 217 

Codebec. William, m. Jacomyntje Elting 484 

Colden, Alexander, m. Gertrude Wynkoop 486 

Colden. Cadwallader, Jun 64, 109, 316 

Colden, David, m. Gertrude Wynkoop, widow of Alexander Colden 486 

Conklin. Maria, wife of Severyn Hasbrouck 406 

Conklin, Lieut. Nathaniel 328 

Conklin, Capt. 33J 

Connolly, Michael, Paymaster and Lieutenant 342 

Cook (Cooke). Samuel, Surgeon 330, 342 

Constable, Ruth, wife of Henry H. Hasbrouck 389 

Cornelissen. Garit 14, 305 

Cornish, James C, m. Margaret Peters Hasbrouck 404 

Cornish, Rev. Marion, son of James C 404 

Cottin, Jean, the schoolmaster 51 

gift of a house to 22 

m. Catharine, widow of Louis DuBois 27, 286 

Craft. Isaac, m. Catharine DuBois, widow of Dr. Deyo 302 

Crandle, Simon 96 

Crispell, Crespel. Anthony. 6, 7, 13, i^, 19, 20, 52. 106, 474 

m. Maria Blanshan 308 

Crispell, Anthony, m. Eliza DuBois 321 

Crispell, Anthony, of Hurley, sells land in New Paltz 33 

Crispell. .'\nthony, trooper in 1715 117 

Crispell. Antoine, son of Jan. m. Catrina Van Benthuysen 524 

Crispell. .Antony, son of Peter, m. Leah Roosa 524 

Crispell. Anthony, deceased 3.S4 

Crispell, DuBois, son of John 386 

Crispell. Elizabeth, da. of Anthoine the Patentee, wife of Elias 

Ean 474. 524 

Crispell, Jan, soldier in 1715 117 

Crcspell. Johannes 106 

soldier in Kingston Co. 1715 117 

Crispell, John, ni. Jane Hasbrouck 386 

Crispell. Lydia, wife of Samuel Hasbrouck 373 

Crispell. Maria Maddaleen, da. of .Anthoine. wife of Mattys C. 

Sleght 474. 524 

Crispel. Peter, son of .Anthoine, m. Neeltje Gerretson 524 

Crispell. Peter, son of John 386 

Crispell. Dr. Peter, ni. Katie Filing 407 



542 J\J)liX 

PAOE 

Daillic, Rev. Pierre 25, 52, 55. 59, 362 

arrives at New Paltz ' . . . ^j 

Dainour, Anne, wife of Peter Ciuiniar 40 

Davenol, Humphrey 255 

David. John 255 

Dean, Jedediali 96 

Dc Bonrepos, Rev. David 25, 31. 52, 59, 362 

Decker, Catharine, wife of Louis Hasbrouck 4OO 

Decker, Mary, wife of Levi Hasbrouck 387 

Decker, Malhcus, ni. Magdalen Revier 244 

Decker, Sarah, wife of Col. Josiah Hasbrouck 401 

Degraff. Jenitje, wife of Abraham Freer, Jun 364 

De Graff, Maria, wife of David Auchmoody 451 

De GraflF, Marytje, wife of Christian Deyo 259 

See Le Conte. 

Delavall, John bi , 309. 376 

Delavall, Thomas 257 

De Long. Jannitje. wife of Renjamin Hasbrouck 369, 394 

Depew, Nicator 255 

De Peyster. A 109 

Depuy. Benjamin, m. Catharine Revier 234 

Depuy, De Witt. m. Ann Elizabeth Bevier 235 

Depuy, Maria, ist wife of Severyn Hasbrouck 405 

Depuy, Moses C, m. Jane Bevier 240 

Dcs Chalets, Madeline, wife of Jean Giron 357 

Devine, Sarah, wife of Jacob Hornbeck Bevier 242 

De Vou, Michael 95 

Dewitt, Andries. m. Margaret Bevier 241 

Dewitt, Ann, wife of Philip D. B. Bevier 250 

Dewitt. Catharine, da. of Dr. Andries, wife of Nathaniel Bevier. 245, 248 

De Witt. Catharine, wife of Deyo 260 

De Witt, Cornelius, m. Jane Hasbrouck ^Sj 

De Witt, Jacobus 265 

De Witt, Johannes lOQ 

De Witt. Johannes A., m. Rachel Bevier 2^V^ 

De Witt. Leah, wife of Nathaniel Deyo 269 

Dewitt. Luke. m. Elizabeth Bevier 242 

DeWitt. ^^^rgaret. wife of Jacob J. Bevier 237. 241 

Dewitt, NIaria, wife of Jonas Bevier 245, 249 

DeWitt, Maria, 2d wife of Roelif Hasbrouck 1^7:^ 

Dewitt, Marytje. wife f)f Hugo Ab. Freer 363 

De Witt. Dr. Alathew, m. Maria Hasbrouck 404 

De Witt, ^^o>^es. ni. Elizabeth Deyo 268 

Dewitt, Sarah, da. of Reuben, wife of Tjerck Bevier 243 

Dewitt, Stephen, m. Maria Bevier 241 

De Witt. William. Jun 265 

De Witt, William W., in. Lea Bevier 234 

De Yadus, Joost 14 

(Deyo, de Yoo, Doyo. Doyou, Doioie. de Joo, Dolliaw, Doliaw. 

Doliou. Diec). Dujou. Doiau ) 

Deyo, .Abraham, the Patentee 75. 106, 309. 470. 47 1 

Deyo. .\braham. son of Pierre the Patentee 19, 89. 91, 99. 261 

Deyo, .\braham. 2d, m. Elizabeth DuBois 297, 299. 516 

Deyo, Abraham. 3d, Captain, et scq 263 

Deyo. Abraham. 5th son of Daniel 268 

D.vo Abrah.im. r.th 266 



INDEX 543 

I- AGE 

Dcyu. Abrani. Abraham 49, 261, 277 

Deyo, Capt. Abraham 477 

De\'o, Capt. Abm., Cantine's Regiment 420 

Deyo, Capt. Abm., m. Mary LeFevre, widow of Isaac 441 

Deyo, Dr. Abraham 268-y 

Deyo, Judge Abraliam. of Modena 268 

Deyo, Abraham, of Ireland Corners 266 

Deyo, Abram, son of Benjamin, m. Freer 278, 279 

Deyo, Abraham, son of Daniel A 268 

Deyo, Abraham, son of Joseph 270 

De}^o, son of Pierre, m. Elsie Clarvveater 515 

Deyo, Abraham, son of Simeon 269 

Deyo, Abm., grandson of Christian the Patentee 29 

DeA'O. Abram A., son of Capt. Abm 441 

Deyo, Judge Abraham A 264 

sheriff 266 

Deyo. Abm. A., Jun 29, 266 

Deyo, Abraham J 270, 271 

Deyo, Abm. W 273. 279 

Deyo. .-M^m. W., son of William 278, 493 

Deyo, Alfred 269 

Deyo, .\lvah. m. Lydia Chambers 27;; 

Deyo, Andrew L. F 266, 269 

Deyo. Andries 49, 270 

Deyo. Andries. son of Philip 271 

Deyo, Andries. m. Catharine Elting 492 

Deyo, Anna 269 

Deyo. .Anne, dies 41 

Deyo. .\nna. da. of Christian the Patentee, wife of Jean Hasbrouck 

thc Patentee 10. 508, 515 

Deyo. .Anna. da. of Harvey 278 

Deyo, Anna. da. of Pierre, wife of John Hasbrouck 55 

Deyo. Anning S.. son of Col. Jacob 269 

Deyo, Annitjc. wife of Daniel Freer 360 

Deyo. Barzillai 268 

Deyo, Benjamin 441 

Deyo, Benjamin, son of Benjamin 278 

Deyo. Benjamin, son of Hcndricus, m. Jennek Van Vliet 3 

Deyo. Benjamin 98, 273, 275. 278 

son of Hendricus, m. Jennek Van YWei 516 

Deyo'. Benjamin I 270 

Devo. Bridget 278 

Deyo. Brodhcad 268 

Deyo. Caroline, wife of Dewitt Ransom 277 

Deyo. Catharine, da. of William 278 

Deyo. Catharine, wife of Andries Elting 271 

Devo, Catharine, wife of W. DuBois 270 

Deyo. Charles 278 

Deyo. Christian 10, 13, r?. 19, 56, 289. 361. 369. 509 

Devo. Christian, the Patentee 253 

' will of 254 

agreement of the heirs of 2^^ 

Devo. Christian, 2d, son of Pierre 

' 75, 89. 91. 92. 254-5, 257. 259. 2<X3. 509 

and Marv Lc Conte married 42. 515 

Devo. Christian. 3d 259 



544 • INDEX 

PACK 

Deyo, Christian. 4th 260 

Deyo. Christian, son of John 279 

Deyo. Christian, Jiin., son of Moses 98 

Deyti, Christopher Cristoflfel 259, 27^. 

son of Hendricus 98 

m. Deborah Van V'liet 516 

Deyo. Clorine 27J 

Deyo, Cornelia 268 

Deyo. Cornelia, wife of Jacob G. DuBois 273 

Deyo, Cornelia, wife of Josiah Hasbrouck 270 

Deyo, Cornelia Ann, da. of Dr. Nathaniel 346 

Deyo, Cornelius 278 

Deyo, Cornelius, son of William 493 

Deyo, Daniel 62, 263 

Deyo, Daniel, son of Abraham 102, 266 

son of Abram, settles at Ireland Corners 423 

m. Margaret LeFevre 419 

Deyo, Daniel, son of Nathaniel 269 

Deyo, Daniel A 268 

Deyo, Daniel A., m. Petronella LeFevre 427 

Deyo. Daniel L 270 

Deyo, David 275 

Deyo, David, son of Benjamin 2d 279 

Deyo, David, son of Christoffel, marries Rachel Ean 275. 477 

Deyo, David, son of Isaac 275 

Deyo, Deborah, da. of Henry, wife of Peter Ostrander 516 

Deyo, Delia Ann, wife of Andrew LeFevre 277 

Deyo, Delilah 270 

Deyo. De Witt, son of Benjamin 2d 279 

Deyo, Dr., m. Catharine DuBois 302 

Deyo, Eleanor 269, 270 

Deyo, Electa, wife of Philip Elting 270 

Deyo. Elijah 277 

m. Patty Thomas 278 

Deyo. Elizabeth, da. of Christian the Patentee, wife of Simon Le- 
Fevre the Patentee 10, n, 271. 410, 421. 509. 515 

widowed, marries Moses Cantain 411 

Deyo, Elizabeth, da. of Hendricus 3d 277 

Deyo, Elizabeth, da. of Henry Deyo, wife of Abm. E. Hasbrouck. . 277 

Deyo. Elizabeth, wife of Henry DuBois 270 

Deyo, Elizabeth, wife of Moses DcWitt 268 

Deyo, Elmira. wife of Philip D. LeFevre 277 

Deyo, Emcretta. wife of Barton Weed 278 

Deyo, Emily, wife of Josiah Elting 277 

Deyo, Ennis 277 

Deyo. Elsie, widow of Abraham 92 

Deyo, Elsie, wife of Andries Bruyn 271 

Deyo, Esther, da. of Christian 2d, wife of Hugo Hugosen Freer 516 

Deyo. Evelina, da. of Dr. Nathaniel 346 

Deyo, Evert • 276 

Deyo. Ezekiel 265 

son of Lucas 276 

Deyo, Ezekiel, son of William 278, 493 

Deyo. Ezekiel I . . •. 273 

Deyo. Francis 276 



JMDLX 545 

PAGE 

Deyo. Frank DoWilt, son of Dr. Nathaniel 346 

Deyo, George, son of Joseph H.. goes to lUinois 277 

Deyo. George, son of Thomas 278 

Deyo. Hagetea. da. of Henry 275 

wife of Jolin Freer 359, 517 

Deyo. Hannah, wife of Noah Elting 496 

Deyo, Harvey 277. 

m. Ellen Tooker 278 

Deyo. Heckaliah 278 

Deyo. Hendrick 58 

Deyo, Hendricus 259-60, 504 

Deyo, Hendricus or Henry, son of Pierre the Patentee 

40. 89. 91. 92. 273. 27s 

m. Margaret van Bummel (Wanboom) 515 

Deyo. Hendricus. son of Hendricus 276 

Deyo. Hendricus. son of Hendricus 275 

m. Elizabeth Becm 276, 517 

Deyo, Hcnricus 257 

Deyo, Henry, Aenrey 75. 106 

Deyo, Henry, son of Elijah 278 

Deyo, Henry, son of Hendricus 277 

m. Elizabeth L. Bevier 248. 277 

Deyo. Henry, son of John VV 278 

Deyo. Hiram C 269 

Deyo. Ira 271 

Deyo. Isaac 275 

son of Henry, m. Agatha Freer 510 

Deyo. Israel T 261 

Deyo. Jacob. Colonel of Militia 269 

Deyo. Jacob, grandson of Peter. Jun 276 

Deyo. Jacobus 92. 259. 260 

son of Christian 2d. m. Janetje Freer 515 

Deyo. Jacobus, soldier Kingston Co. 1738 118 

Deyo. Jacobus. 2d 260 

Deyo. James E 98. 259. 477 

Deyo. Jane. da. of William Deyo. wife of Joseph 277. 278 

Deyo. Jane H 269 

Deyo. johannis 259. 275 

Deyo. Johannis. son of Daniel A 268 

Deyo. Johannes, son of Hendricus 98 

m. Sarah Van Wagenen 275. 516 

Deyo. Johannis. Jun 259 

Deyo. John, son of Benjamin 278 

m. Catrina Kritsinger 279 

Deyo. John, son of John 279 

Devo. John, son of Nathaniel 269 

Devo. John, son of Dr. Nathaniel 269. 346 

Devo John B 266 

Dovo. Tohn H 268 

Devo. John L 271 

Devo. John W ^77 

DeV". Jonathan 260. 263. 268 

Deyo. Jonathan, son of Abraham 2d 270 

Deyo. Jonathan, son of Daniel L 271 

Deyo. Jonathan, m. Catharine Fan. 477 



546 INDEX 

PACE 

Deyo, Jonathan, m. Mary LcFevre 440 

Deyo, Jonathan N 269 

Deyo, Joseph 269 

Deyo, Joseph, son of Hondriciis 2d 276 

Deyo, Joseph H 277 

Deyo, Josiah 260 

Deyo. Julia, wife of Philip LeRoy 277 

Deyo, LeFevre 42 1 

Deyo, Levi 279 

Deyo, Livingston, m. Saxton 278 

Deyo, Lucas, son of Peter. Jun.. m. Van Kleeck 276 

Deyo. Luther, m. Frances E. Pratt 277 

Deyo. Lydia. wife of Jacob LeFevre 435 

Deyo. Madaline. da. of Peter (Pierre), baptized 39 

Deyo. Margaret, da. of Pierre 37 

Deyo. Margaret 10. 55. 257. 266 

da. of Christian, wife of Abraham DuBois 11, 289. 509. 315 

Deyo, Margaret, da. of Thomas 278 

Deyo. Margaret, da. of Christian 2d, wife of Marinus Van .A.cken. . 516 

Deyo, Maria, da. of William 278 

Doyo. Maria, da. of Christian, wife of Abraham Hasbrouck 

II, 368. 509 315 

Deyo, Maria, da. of Harvey 278 

Deyo. Maria, da. of Pierre the Patentee, wife of Isaac Freer 358 

Deyo. Maria, ist wife of Hiram Budd 453 

Deyo. Maria, wife of Martymas Freer 230 

Deyo. Maria, wife of Mathusalem Hasbrouck 373 

Deyo. ^Tario. da. of Abraham the Patentee, wife of Jacob Clear- 
water 47^ 

Deyo, Mary 259 

Deyo. Mary. da. of Elizabeth 39 

Deyo. Mary. da. of Pierre the Patentee 2i7 

Deyo. Mary. da. of Christian, wife of James Auchmoody. . .259. 451. 516 

Deyo. Mary, wife of .Abraham J. Deyo 270. 271 

Deyo. Mary, wife of .\ndric Revier 239 

Deyo. Mary, wife of Andrics DuBois 302 

Deyo. Mary, wife of Simon DuBois 268 

Deyo. Mary, wife of Xathaniel LeFevre 203. 426. 428 

Devo. Mary, wife of Oscar Noyes 269 

Deyo. Mary Ann 269. 278 

Devo. Marvtie. da, of .Abraham, wife of Isaac Freer 261. 316 

Devo. Mathew 08. 230 

Deyo. Mathew. 2d 260 

Deyo. Maurice W 278 

Deyo. Monroe 270 

Deyo. Moses 92. 250 

Deyo. Moses. 2d 260 

Devo, Moses, son of Christian, son of Pierre 1st 93 

' m. Clarissa Stokhard 259. 516 

Devo. Moses, son of John 279 

Devo. M. L 261 

Deyo. Nathan 260 

Deyo. Nathaniel 268. 431 

Deyo. Nathaniel, son of Daniel 26c> 

Devo. Nathaniel DuBois. son of Dr. Nathaniel 34^» 



INDEX 547 

PAGE 

Dcyo. Dr. Nalhanicl, son of Jonathan 268 

ni. Cornelia Bruyn DuBois 346 

Deyo, Noah, son of Joseph H 277 

Deyo, Oliver Hazard Perry 269 

Deyo, Rev. Paul T.. son of David 98, 275, 477 

Deyo, Perry 271 

Deyo, Peter (Pierre), the Patentee. .10, 13, 15. 55, 58, 257, 259, 507. 509 

son of Christian the Patentee, m. Agatha Nickel 253, 515 

Deyo, Peter, son of Pierre the Patentee 37, 89, 91, 92. 257 

dies 30-31 

Deyo, Peter. Jun 275, 276 

Deyo, Peter, son of Hendricus 97, 98 

m. Elizabeth Helm 516 

Deyo, Peter, son of Jonathan 270 

Deyo, Peter, son of Lucas 276 

Deyo. Peter, m. Cornelia Elting 491 

Deyo, Phebe. wife of Abm. Deyo 277 

Deyo, Phebe Ann, wife of Goodrich 278 

Deyo, Philip 49. 263, 271 

m. Gertrude LeFevre 426 

Deyo, Philip T. 278 

Deyo, Rachel, wife of Abraham Schoonniaker 500 

Dcyo, Rebecca, da. of William 278 

Deyo. Reuben 270 

m. Ellen DuBois 302 

Deyo, Richard 261 

Deyo. Robert E 269, 325 

Dcyo, Robert Emmet, son of Dr. Nathaniel 346 

Deyo. Roelif, son of William 278, 493 

Deyo. Rowena 270 

Deyo, Samuel, son of Thomas 278 

Dcyo, Sarah 269, 275 

Deyo, Sarah, da. of Henry, wife of Isaac Van Wagenen 517 

Deyo. Sarah, da. of Philip ist. wife of Solomon P. LeFevre. . . .273, 432 

Deyo, Sarah, da. of William 278 

Deyo, Simeon 263, 269 

Deyo, Simeon, .son of Joseph 270 

Deyo, Simeon, 2d, son of Jacob 269 

Deyo. Simon, son of Abraham 3d 264 

Deyo. Stephen 279 

Deyo. Theodore 49. 257 

Deyo. Mrs. Theodore 49 

Deyo. Theron 278 

Dcyo. Thomas, .son of Hendricus 3d 277 

m. I , Elting : 2. Deborah Brown 278 

Deyo. Thciuias J 268 

Dcyo. T.i erck 276 

Deyo. Tjcrck. son of Benjamin 2d 279 

Deyo. Van Zandt, son of Dr. Nathaniel 346 

Deyo. William 261 

Deyo. William, son of Benjamin 278 

in. Sarah, da. of Roelif J. Elting 49.^ 

Dev(.. William, m. Rachel LeFevre •. . . . 428 

Dcv... William H 277 

Deyo. William W.. s.m of William 278, 493 

m. Sarah Hasbronck 373 



548 INDEX 

PAGE 

Deyo, W^oolsey, son of John W 278 

Deyo. Wyntje. wife of Uanicl Hasbrouck 261, 369 

wife of Nathaniel LeFevre 267 

Dickerson. Elizabeth, da. of William, wife of Benjamin Has- 

brt )uck 389 

DoHg. Alexander, schoolmaster 217 

Dodge, Lieut. Henry 328, 331 

Adj ntani 342 

Dodge. Lieut. Samuel 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery ^32 

Donaldson, Abraham 95, 101 

Donalson. William, of Lancaster Co.. Penna 289 

Dongan, Gov. Thomas 61. 309. 376 

Doren. Arthur, m. Rachel DuBois 302 

Drake. Charles 374 

(DuBois. Debois. DuBoois. D. Booys.) 

DuBois, Abraham. . 13. 15. 37. 51, 55, 56, 58, 64. 75, 89, 91. 92, 256. 316, 362 

DuBois, .Abraham, the Patentee, son of Louis ist 280. 286 

m. Margaret Deyo, will of 289 • 

last survivor of the Patentee 289 

DuBois. Abraham. 2d. son of Abraham the Patentee 289. 508 

settles in Somerset Co.. N. J 289 

DuBois. Abraham, son of Abraham, baptized 38 

DuBois. Abraham, son of Benjamin, m. Magdalen Bevier 245. 303 

DuBois. Abraham, son of Daniel, m. Anna LeFevre of Blooming- 
dale 303. 450 

. DuBois. Abram. son of Mathusalem 313 

DuBois. Abraham, son of Simon 301 

DuBois. Abraham, m. Margaret Deyo 11 

DuBois. Abm. A., son of Abm 450 

DuBois. Abm. R 371 

DuBois. Amanda, da. of Lewis 4th, wife of Samuel Harris 345 

DuBois. .Andries, son of Andries 319 

DuBois. .Andries. son of Jonathan 318 

m. Sarah LeFevre 319 

DuBoi.s, Andries, son of Simon 300 

tn. Mary Deyo 302 

DuBois. Andries, m. Maria Elting 492 

DuBois. Ann. da. of Mathias 317 

DuBois. Anna. da. of Benjamin, wife of Peter Freer 303 

DuBois. Anna. da. of Lewis 4th. wife of Henry E. Leman 346 

DuBois. Anna. da. of Louis J 321 

wife of Jacob J. Hasbrouck 322 

DuBois, Anna. 2d wife of Jacob Hasbrouck, Jun 402 

DuBois, .\im .Kmclia. da. of Cornelius 344 

DuBois, Ann .Amelia, da. of Nathaniel 344 

DuBois, Ann P'liza. da. of John 344 

DuBois. Rev. Anson 275. 307 

DuBois. Antoinette, da. of Josiah 311 

DuBois, Augu'^tus. son of Louis 3d 317 

DuBois, Barent. son of Jacob, m. Jacomyntje DuBois 307 

DuBois. Benjamin, son of .Abraham 303 

DuBois. Benjamin, son of Benjamin 307 

DuBois. Benjamin, .son of Daniel, son of Isaac the Patentee 98 

DuBois. Benjamin, son of Daniel 296 

m. Maria Bevier . 235. 299. ^o^ 



INDEX 549 

PAGE 

DuBois, Benjamin, son of Isaac the Patentee, baptized 39 

dies young 293 

DuBois, Benjamin, son of Solomon 310 

m. Catharine Suylant and settles at Catskill, Greene Co 307 

DuBois, Rev. Benjamin, grandson of Jacob 287 

DuBois. Blanche, da. -in-law of David de Bonrepos 31 

DuBois, Brodhead. .son of Jonathan, settles in Michigan 321 

DuBois, Caroline, da. of Cornelius 344 

DuBois. Catharine, da. of Abram 40-41 

DuBois. Catharine, da. of Andries, wife of Dr. Deyo and later of 

Isaac Craft 302 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Charles, wife of Abiel Hand 321 

DuBois. Catharine, da. of Garret 493 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Hendricus, wife of Mathew DuBois 311 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Isaac 307 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Judge Jonathan of Springtown, wife of 

Benjamin Van Wagenen » 480 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Louis 2d 314 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Cornelius, wife of Col. Jonathan Has- 

brouck 310, 381 

DuBois, Catharine, da. of Solomon of Poughwoughtenonk, wife of 

Peter Low 307, 468 

DuBois. Catharine, wife of Dr. Abraham Deyo 270 

DuBois, Catharine, wife of Jonas Hashrouck 371 

DuBois. Catharine, wife of Dr. Jacob Wirtz (Wurts) 465 

DuBois. Charles, son of Louis 3d 317 

DuBois. Charles, son of Lewis Sth 345 

DuBois. Charles, son of Louis J 321 

DuBois. Charles Augustus, son of Nathaniel .?44 

DuBois. Charlotte, da. of Cornelius 344 

DuBois. Chretien (Christian) 6. 280 

DuBois. Clementine Williams, da. of Lewis 4th. wife of Reuben 

H. Rohrer 346 

DuBois. Col., son of Louis, son of Louis J ^22 

DuBois. Cornelia, da. of Jonathan, wife of Cornelius Vernooy 318 

DuBois. Cornelia, da. of Simon, wife of Josaphat Hashrouck. . .300. 371 
DuBois. Cornelia Bruyn. da. of Lewis 4lh. wife of Dr. Nathaniel 

Deyo '. .m6 

DuBois. Cornelius 319 

m. Rebecca DuBois. his cousin 3'.^ 

DuBois. Cornelius, son of Benjamin ?,o~ 

DuBois. Cornelius, son of Mathusalem ^\?, 

DuBnis, Cornelius, son of Solomon . . . •. 07 

DuBoi-^, Cornelius, son of Wilhelnius, has three wives 344 

DuBois, Cornelius, Sr., son of Solomon 306. 307. 310 

m. Margaret Houghtaling 3^9 

DuBois. Cornelius. Jun.. son of Cornelius, Sr 306. 310 

Quartermaster 4th Regiment, m. Gertrude Bruyn 310 

DuBois. Dallas, son of Nathaniel .S44 

DuBois. Daniel 50, 75, 92, 106. 290, 309. .^53. 4-M 

DuBois, Daniel, m. Catharine LeFevre 4J0 

DuBois, Daniel, trooper in 1713 117 

DuBois, Daniel, soldier Ulster County Militia 1738 118 

DuBois, Daniel, son of Benjamin, m. Catharine LeFevre . .303 

DuBois. Daniel, son of Daniel .^oi 



550 IXDEX 

PACE 

DuBois, Daniel, son of Isaac the Patentee 293, 301 

baptized 38 

m. Mary LeFcvre ,. . 412 

house of, built in 1705, still standing 294 

will of 296 

DuBois, Daniel, son of Isaac, son of Simon, m. Magdalene Has- 

brouck 301 . ,^7J>, 

DuBois, Daniel, son of Mathias .^i? 

DuBois, Daniel, son of Simon, m. Catharine Bessinier 300 

DuBois, Daniel A., son of Abraham 303 

DuBois. Daniel Asa, son of Cornelius 344 

DuBois. Daniel Lockwood. son of Lewis 4th, never married 346 

DuBois, David, son of Jonas 321 

DuBois, David, son of Lewis i st 280. 286 

DuBois, Lieut. David 117 

DuBois. Capt. David 328 

DuBois, Deborah Ann, da. of Cornelius 344 

DuBois, Derick VV., son of Charles 321 

DuBois. Deyo, son of Jonas 321 

in. EHzabeth LcFevre 428 

DuBois. Dinah, da. of Hendricus, 1st wife of Abram Elting..3il. 487. 494 

DuBois, Edward, son of Josiah 311 

DuBois. Edwin Lockwood, son of Gen. Nathaniel 347 

DuBois. Eli, of Ellcnville, grandson of Wessel 321 

DuBois, Elizabeth, da. of Andries, wife of Samuel Duncan 302 

DuBois, Elizabeth, da. of Andries, wife of Johannes LeFevre 319 

DuBr)is, Elizabeth, da. of Cornelius 344 

DuBois, Elizabeth, da. of Daniel, wife of .-Kbraham Deyo 2d 297. 299 

DuBois. Elizabeth, da. of Isaac 307 

DuBois. Eliza, da. f)f Jonas, wife of Anthony Crispell 321 

DuBois. Elizabeth, da. of Josiah. wife of Dr. Isaac Reeve 311 

DuBois, Elizabeth, da. of Louis 3d 317 

DuBois, Elizabeth, da. of Lewis 4th, dies young 346 

DuBois. Elizabeth, da. of Louis J 321 

wife of Rev. Stephen Goetchius ^22 

DuBois, Elizabeth, da. of Wilhclmus. wife of John W. Wygant. 344 

DuBois, Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Deyo 2d, called "Capt. Batche" 263 

DuBois. Elizabeth, wife of Johannes LeFcvre 426 

DuBois. Elizabeth Wygant. da. of Nathaniel 344 

DuBois. Ellen, da. of Andries. wife of Reuben Deyo 302 

DuBois, Elsie, da. of Andries. wife of Philip LeFevre 319, 43i 

DuBois, Emma. da. of Nathaniel . 344 

DuBois. Esther, da. of Isaac the Patentee, wife of Louis Bevier 

of Marbletown 230, 293 

DuBois. Esther, da. of Philip, wife of Louis Bevier 249 

DuBois. Eugene, son of Nathaniel 344 

DuBois. Fletcher, son of Nathaniel .^44 

DuBois. Garret, son of Henry 313 

m. Maria Elting 493 

DuBois, Garret L 3I3 

DuBois, George, son of Jonas 321 

DuBois, George, son of Jonathan 321 

DuBois. Gilbert, son of Josiah 31 1 

DuBois, Hannah, da. of Cornelius. Jun., wife of Andries J. Le- 
Fevre • 311. 427 

DuBois. Hannah, da. of Nathaniel, son of Col. Lewis 344 



INDEX 55' 



DuBuis, Jrlaidcnburgli, son ut Joseph 303 

DuBois, Helena, da. of Solomon, wife of Josiah Elting 307. 3io, 40? 

DuBois, Hendricus, son of Solomon 97. 307, 3io 

m. Janetje Houghtaling 3'^ 

contributes to Conferentie Church 3*2 

DuBois, Hendricus, Fence Viewer, New Paltz 30tt 

DuBois, Henry ^?*> 

DuBois, Henry, son of Charles 3^1 

DuBois, Henry, son of Garret 493 

DuBois, Henry or Hendricus, son of Hendricus 3^^ 

soldier in Revolution 3i2, 313 

m. Rebecca Van Wagenen ■ 3I3 

DuBois, Adjutant Henry 32o, 330 

Colonel ^^ 

DuBois. Henrv I., son of Isaac 30i 

DuBois, Henry L r^ ' ' ' \- ^^' ^^^ 

DuBois Henry M., son of Mathusalem, son of Cornehus 313 

DuBois', Hester, da. of Nathaniel, wife of Col. Jesse ,Woodhull 322 

DuBois, Hiskiah, soldier Kingston Co. 1738 ^^^ 

DuBois, Hudson, son of Nathaniel 344 

DuBois, Huybartus, son of Benjamin ; • ' 'o' " " o'^ ^^l 

DuBois, Isaac, the Patentee 13, I5- 263. 280, 286, 508 

DuBois, Isaac, m. Mary Hasbrouck 42. 254. 293. 400 

family of "^^ 

dies : ,40 

DuBois, Isaac, son of Benjamm 307 

DuBois, Isaac, son of Daniel -9" 

DuBois, Isaac, son of Jacob '°' 

DuBois, Isaac, son of Gen. Nathaniel 347 

DuBois, Isaac, son of Simon • 300 

m. Rebecca Deyo. moves to Chenango County, but returns. 

private in 3d Ufster County Regiment 3io 

' DuBois. Isaac, son of Solomon A' '^ o '^'° 

m. Rachel DuBois and moves to Lancaster Co.. Penn 289, 307 

DuBois, Isaac, soldier Kingston Co. 1738 \}° 

DuBois, Isaac, soldier in the Revolution -^5 

DuBois. Jacob ■ • • • •. ^"J 

DuBois, Jacob, son of Charles, moves to Michigan o" q ok 

DuBois, Jacob, son of Louis ist • 280. 2i^2. 2»o 

son of. settles in Monmouth Co., N.J ^^7 

DuBois. Jacob, soldier in Hurley Co. 1717 "° 

DuBois. Lieut. Jacob "7 

DuBois, Jacob G.. son of Garret 49.^ 

DuBois. Jacob M ■ ^ ;;• ^7 

DuBois. Capt. Jacob M.. son of Mathusalem 2d 3". 3i3 

DuBr.is, Jacobus. Jun.. soldier Kingston Co. 1738. • ■•■••••• V; "o 

nul'.ois Jacomvntic. da. of Cornelius, wife of Andries Bevier. . .230. 23« 
DuBois. Jacom'yntjc. da. of Solomon, wife of Barent DuBois. son 

of Jacob 'I^J 

da. of Andries Bevier -^A" 

DuBois. Jacques, brother of Louis ist -"J 

DuBois. James, son of Jonas • ••• • 3^ 

DuBois. Jane. da. of Cornelius 344 

wife of Major Jacob Hasbrouck • • ;v" " .' , ' V ' 

DuBois. Jane. da. of Cornelius. Sr.. wife of Jacob Hasbrouck. Jun 400 
DuBois. Jane, da. of Cornelius. Jun.. wife of Jacob Hardenburgh. 311- 4-« 



55-' INDEX 

PACE 

DuBois. Jane, da. of Henry, wife of Z. Freer 313 

DuBois. Jane, da. of Josiah. wife of Dr. William Pierson 311 

DuBois. Joel 289. 290 

DuBois. Johannes 52 

m. Rachel LeFevre 430 

DuBoi.s. Johanne.s. soldier Ul.ster County Militia 1738 118 

DuBois. John, son of Johannes and Judith W'ynkoop. ni. Anna 

Bevier 237 

DuBois, John, son of John, son of Mathias 317 

DuBois. John, son of Jonathan, settles in Michigan ^21 

DuBois. John, son of Louis 3d 317 

DuBois, John, son of Mathias 317 

DuBois. John, son of Wilhelmus, m. Rebecca Wygant 344 

DuBois. John, W., son of Daniel 301 

DuBois. Jonas, son of Jonathan 318 

dies young 319 

DuBt)is. Jonas, son of Louis J 321 

DuBois. Jonas, son of Nathaniel t,22 

DuBois. Jonathan, son of Andries 31 

DuBois. Jonathan, son of Louis 2d 314 

m. Elizabeth, da. of Andries LeFevre 318. 417 

will of 318 

DuBois. Jonathan, son of Louis J 321 

DuBois, Jonathan, son of Wessel 321 

DuBois. Joseph, son of Andries 302 

dies in the .Army. 1812 i(S 

DuBois. Joseph, son of Jsaac. moves to Michigan 301 

Du Rois. Joseph, son of Simon .300 

ni. Mary Hardenburgh 302 

DuBois, Josiah 64. 271, 306. 316 

DuBois, Josiah, m. Elizabeth Hasbrouck 401 

DuBois, Josiah, son of Cornelius, Sr 310 

DuBois. Josiah. son of Cornelius. Jun.. m. i. Elizabeth Hasbrouck: 

2. Catharine Winfield 3' 1 

DuBois. Josiah. son of Josiah 31 1 

DuBois. Katharine, da. of Abraham, wife of William Donalson of 

Lancaster Co.. Penna 289 

DuBois. Katy Ann, da. of Louis, son of Louis J 322 

DuBois, Leah, da. of Abraham the Patentee, baptized 39 

DuBois. Leah. da. of Abraham, m. Philip Ferrie 289 

DuBois. Leah. da. of Hendricus. wife of Christopher Kiersted 311 

DuF^ois. Leah. da. of Solomon, wife of Cornelius Wynkoop 310 

DuBois, LeFevre. son of Jonas 321, 403. 4^'*» 

DuBois. Lockley, da. of Mathias 317 

DuBois, Louis, 1st 

6. 7, 8, 9, JO. Ti. 12, 13. 15. 19. 51, 53, 56, 61, 64, 253, 483 

m. Catharine Blanshan 280, 508 

church elder and returns to Kingston 281 

will of 283 

patent to 305 

DuBois. Louis, 2d. or Jun . . .61. 89. 91, 92. 280, 286, 305 

quit claim to, and brother .?o<j 

settles at Nescatack or Lil)ertyvilii- and marries Rachel Has- 
brouck '. 3'4- .^'7 

boundaries of land of 3i<i 



IXniiX 533 

DuBois Louis, 3d. son of Louis 2d 314 

m. Charity Andrcvelt and settles on Staten Island 317 

DuBois. Lewis 4tli, son of Col. Lewis 3^7 

ni. Annie Hull 345 

DuBois. Lewis, 5lh. sf)n of Lewis 4tli. m. Jane Tliorne 345 

DuBois. Louis, son of Andries 3'9 

DuBois, Louis, son of Charles 321 

DuBois, Lewis, son of Nathaniel ist, m. Rachel DuBois 310 

Colonel 5th Continentals .^22 

buried at Marlboro 323 

military service of, et. seq 325- 342 

DuBois, Louis, son of Jacob, settles in Monmouth Co., X. J.. .. 2H7 

DuB<iis, Louis, son of Louis J 321 

DuBois. Louis, son of Mathias 3^7 

DuBois. Louis. Corporal of Troop in 1715 117 

DuBois. Louis, of Denning, grandson of Wessel 321 

DuBois. Louis, Jun 3^3. 4^3 

DuBois, Louis, Jun.. soldier in Kingston Co. 171 5 117 

DuBois, Louis L. son of Jonas 321 

DuBois. Louis J., son of Jonathan 3'^ 

m. Catharine Brodhcad 3^9 

Captain 3d Ulster County Regiment 100. 321 

DuBois. Louis L 321. 322 

DuBois, Louis Matthyse, soldier in Kingston Co., 171 3 117 

DuBois, L. Nathaniel', of Walden, son of Jonas 321 

DuBois. Luther, son of Nathaniel .^44 

DuBois, Marcus Dougherty, son of Lewis 4th 34^^ 

DuBois. Margaret, da. of Abraham .^04 

DuBois. Margaret, da. of Cornelius, Jun., wife of .\bm. J. Har- 

denburgh .3 ' ' • 45^ 

DuBois. Margaret, da. of Isaac 307 

DuBois. i\L-irgarct. da. of Col. Lewis, wife of Daniel Lockwood. . . . 346 

da. of Gen. Nathaniel DuBois 347 

DuBois, Maria, da. of Garret 493 

DuBois. Maria, da. of John 344 

DuBois. Maria, da. of Jonas, wife of Jacob Ostrander 321 

DuBois. ALiria. da. of Jonathan, wife of Abm. Bevier, Jun. . . . 236, 318 
DuBois, ^Laria. da. of Louis, Jun., wife of Col. Johannes Hardcn- 

burgh 314. 460 

DuBois, Mary •• SO 

DuBois, ^L^rv. da. of Cornelius 344 

DuBois, Marv. da. of Cornelius. Jun.. wife of William McDonald. . 311 

DuBois. Mary. da. of Daniel .^oi 

DuBois. Mary, da. of Henry ( Hendricus) 31.3 

DuBnis. Mary, da. of Col. Lewis, wife of Asa Steward 344 

DuBois. Mary, da. of Mathias 3U 

DuBois, Marv. da. of Simon, wife of Jacobus Rose 300 

DuBois. Mary, widow of Isaac 39-91 

DuBois. Marv Louisa, da. of Nathaniel 344 

DuBois. Mathew, son of Louis ist 280, 281. 286 

m. Catharine DuBois 3' ' 

DuBois. Mathew Wygant, son of John 34A 

DuBoi>~. Mathias. son of John, son of Mathias 3I7 

DuBois. Mathias, son of Louis 3d. m. i. Catharine Carsbun : 2d. 

, and moves to Broome Co.. N. N' "7 



554 INDEX 

PAGE 

DuBois. Mathias. son of Malhias 317 

DuBois, Mathusalem. son of Cornelius 313 

DuBois. Matliusaleni, son of Ephriam, m. Katrintje Bevier 244 

DuBois, Matliusalem, son of Htndricus 311, 313 

soldier in Revolution, ni. i, Gertrude Bruyn ; 2, Catharine 

Bevier. grandsons of 312 

called "Old Captain" 312 

DuBois, Melissa, da. of Daniel, wife of Benjamin Relyea 301 

DuBois. Melissa, da. of Lewis 4th, wife of William C. Goddard 345 

DuBois. Nathan. Corporal Kingston Co. 1738 118 

DuBois, Nathaniel 318 

DuBois. Nathaniel, Capt. Orange County Regiment 1738 118 

DuBois. Nathaniel, son of Andries. locates at Shivertown 319 

DuBois, Nathaniel, son of Jonathan, son of Louis 2d 99 

does not marry 318. 319 

DuBois, Nathaniel, son of Louis 2d 314 

locates at Salisbury Mills. Orange Co.. and m. Gertrude Bruyn. 322 

DuBois. Nathaniel, son of Col. Lewis 344 

DuBois. Nathaniel, son of Wilhelmus. m. Deborah Ann Bloomer. . . 344 
DuBois. Gen. Nathaniel, son of Zachary. m. Margaret DuBois. 

widow of Daniel Lockwood 347 

DuBois. Nathaniel Hull, son of Lewis 4th 345 

DuBois. Oliver G.. son of Derick. m. Catharine Bevier 251 

DuBois. Pamela, da. of Josiah, wife of Abner Hasbrouck 311 

DuBois. Patterson, of Philadelphia, descendant of Jacob 287 

DuBois. Peter 51 

DuBois. Peter, soldier in Dutchess County Co., 1715 117 

DuBois. Peter W. son of Wilhelmus, son of Mathusalem. the "Old 

Captain" 312 

DuBois. Petrus. son of Benjamin 307 

DuBois. Phcbe, da. of Andries, wife of Job G. Elmore 302 

DuBois, Philip, son of Hendricus 97. 311 

m. Anna Hue 312 

DuBois. Philip, son of Isaac the Patentee, baptized 391 

m. Esther Gumaer 293 

DuBois. Philip, son of Jacob G 493 

DuBois. Philip, son of Mathusalem 313 

DuBois. Philip, trooper in 1715 117 

DuBois, Capt. R. C. of Washington. D. C. visits the home of 

.\bram D. B. in Somerset Co.. N.J 290 

DuBois, Rachel, da. of Abm. the Patenee. baptized 39 

DuBois. Rachel, da. of -Abraham 2d. ni. Isaac, son of Solomon 

DuBois 289 

DuBois. Rachel, da. of Andries. wife of Arthur Doren 302 

DuBois. Rachel, da. of Hendricus. wife of John A. Hardenburgh. 311, 457 
DuBois, Rachel, da. of Hendricus of Nescatack. wife of Zacharias 

Freer 360 

DuBois. Rachel, da. of Louis, son of Louis J 322 

DuBois. Rachel, da. of Col. Lewis, wife of Cornelius Low 344 

DuBois, Rachel, da. of Nathaniel, son of Louis. Jun.. wife of .An- 
dries LeFevrc . 322. 424 

DuBois. Rachel, da. of Cornelius, wife of Col. Lewis DuBois of 

Marlboro 310 

DuBois. Rachel Margaret, da. of Lewis 4lh. wife of Lewis W. 

Young 345 



INDEX 555 

PAGE 

DuBois, Rebecca, da. of Charles 321 

DuBois, Rebecca, da. of Garret 493 

DuBois, Rebecca, da. of Henrj' (Hendricus), wife of Cornelius 

DuBois 313 

DuBois, Rebecca, da. of Isaac 307 

DuBois, Robert Patterson, of New London. Penn 317 

DuBois,, Roelif, son of Garret 493 

m. Gertrude LeFevre 427 

DuBois, Samuel, son of Abraham 303 

DuBois, Samuel, son of Benjamin, m. Jane LeFevre 303 

DuBois. Samuel, m. LeFevre 438 

DuBois, Sarah 280 

DuBois, Sarah, da. of Abraham the Patentee, wife of Roelif Elting 483 

DuBois. Sarah, da. of Cornelius 344 

wife of Jacob L Hasbrouck of Colebergh, Marbletown 306. 403 

DuBois. Sarah, da. of Cornelius, Jun., of Poughwoughtenonk. wife 

of John N. LeFevre 311, 431 

DuBois, Sarah, da. of Josiah. wife of Rev. Mr. Easton 311 

DuBois. Sarah, da. of Solomon, wife of Jacob Hasbrouck 310 

DuBois. Sarah, da. of Solomon, wife of Simon Van Wagenen 307 

DuBois, Simon 299 

DuBois. Simon, of Wallkill. 268 

DuBois. Simon, m. Cathirintje LeFevre 417 

DuBois. Simon, son of Daniel, .son of Isaac the Patentee 99 

DuBois. Simon, son of Daniel 296 

m. Catharine LeFevre 299 

one of the Duzine 299 

Constable of New Paltz 300 

DuBois. Simon, son of Isaac 301 

married twice, 2d wife's name Poyer 16 

DuBois. Simon I., son of Abraham .W3 

DuBois. Simon L 9° 

son of Abm 45o 

DuBois. Simon L., Sr., son of Andries 319 

DuBois. Simon L.. Jun.. son of Simon L.. Sr 319 

DuBois. Solomon 51. 61. 89, 92. 294. 383 

DuBois, Solomon, son of Benjamin 307 

DuBois, Solomon, son of Garret 493 

DuBois. Solomon, son of Hendricus 311 

soldier in Revolution 312 

DuBois. Solomon, son of Jacob G 493 

DuBois. Solomon, .son of Louis ist 280. 282. 286. 483 

m. Tryntje Gerritson 4**^3 

has land in New Paltz. Green Co., N. Y.. and Chester Co.. Pa.. 483 

Lieutenant in N. Y. troops .W7 

quit claim to and brother 309 

will of 310 

DuBois. Solomon, son of Nathaniel Hull DuBois 345 

DuBois. Stephen G.. son of Charles 32t 

DuBois. Susan, da. of Mathias 317 

DuBois. Theron. son of Nathaniel ., 344 

DuBois, WesscI, son of Jonas ! L 321 

DuBois, Wessel. son of Lo"is J 321 

DuBois, We^isel, m. Catharine LeFevre 426 

DuBois. Wilhelmus 270 



=.S<' IXDEX 

FAGK 

DuBois. Willu'lnuis, son of Cornelius. Sr 310 

DuBois. W'illK-lnuis. son of Col. Lewis, m. Mary Hudson 344 

DuBois, Williclinus. son of Mathusaleni 313 

DuBois. William, son of John 344 

DuBois. William E.. of Philadelphia 317 

DuBois. Zacharias, son of Charles, moves to Michigan 321 

DuBois. Zachariah. grandson of Mathusaleni. the "Old Captain". . . 312 

DuBf)is. Zachariah. son of Nathaniel 322 

^laj or i2:i 

brother of Col. Lewis DuBois. taken prisoner at Fort Mont- 

gomerj' 333 

Mem. of his capture by himself 334 

parole of. for exchange 334 

exchanged 335 

DuBois, . da. of Abraham, wife of .-Mexander Elting 304 

DuBois. . da. of Abraham 2d. wife of Roclif Elting 289 

DuBois. , da. of Joseph DuRois. wife of Daniel Tooker 302 

DuBois. . da. of Joseph, wife of Daniel Bevier of Ireland 

Corners 303 

DuBois. , da. of Abraham, wife of Mathusaleni Wurts 304 

DuBois. , da. of Abraham, wife of Maurice Hasbrouck 304 

DuBois. , da. of Jonathan, wife of Benjamin Van Wagenen . . 321 

DuBois, . da. of Jonathan, wife of Derick W. Elting 321 

DuBois. . da. of Jonathan, wife of Alexander Hasbrouck. .. 321 

DuBois. . wife of Josaphat Hasbrouck ;i7i 

DuBois family, history of. at Catskill 2j;^. 307 

DuMont. William 255 

Duncan. Samuel, ni. Elizabeth DuBois. 302 

Dusine ( Douzaine) the. of Xew Paltz j. 111. 112. 261. 474 

government by. instituted 6g 

Eager, Mrs. Elizabeth 304 

( Ean. Een. Eign. L^n, L'in. Yn.) 

Ean. Abrani 265 

Ean. .Xbraham. son of Jan gg. 476 

m. Catharine Van Wagenen. soldier in Revolution 477 

Ean. Abraham, son of Peter 477 

Ean. .^nnetje. da. of Abraham, wife of Benjamin Hasbrouck 477 

Ean. Catharine, da. of .Vbraham. wife of Jonathan Deyo 260. 477 

Ean, Elias 89, 91 

m. Elizabeth, da. of Anthoine Crispell 30. 474 

widow of 92 

Ean. Elias. son of .Vbraham. ni. Elizabeth Hasbrouck 477 

Ean. Elias. son of Jan 476 

Ean. Elias. Jun., son of Elias • 477 

Ean. Elizabeth 75. 474 

Ean. Elizabeth, da. of Elias. wife of Snyder 478 

Ean, Elizabeth, da. of Jan 476 

Ean. I saac. son of Jan 476 

Ean, Jacobus, son of Elias 478 

Ean. James ^ 477 

Ean. Jan ' 75, 309 

Ean. Jan. son of Elias 474 

m. Geesje Roosa 476 

Ean. Margaret, da. of Jan 476 



INDEX 557 

PAGE 

liaii. Maria Magdalen 75, 474 

Ean, Peter 4, 5 

Ean, Peter, son of Abraham, m. Maria Freer 477 

Ean, Rachel, da. of Abraham, wife of David Deyo 275, 477 

Ean, Sarah 75, 47.1 

Easton, Rev. Mr., ni. Sarah DiiBois 311 

Eckcrt. Rachel, Jd wife of Solomon Elting 492 

Ellis, Capt. ^yj 

Ells, Jabez. m. Elsie Hasbrouck 389 

Ellsworth. William 96 

Elmendorf, Blandina, wife of Cornelius Elting 487, 497 

Elmore, Andrics E., of Fort Howard, Wis., grandson of Andries 

DuBois 302 

Elmore, Daniel, m. Maria Vernooy Bevier 242 

Elmore, Job G.. ni. Phebe DuBois 302 

Elting, Eltinge, Elten 

Elting, Aallje. da. of Jan, wife of Garret Aertson 482 

Elting, .Vbraham, m. Jane Vernooy Bevier 248 

Elting, Abraham, son of Josiah 99 

m. I, Dinah DuBois 311, 487. 494 

2. Dorothy Bessimer 494 

Elting, Abram, son of Noah 496 

Elting. Abraham, son of Roelif 483 

Elting. Abm. D. B., son of Josiah 491 

Elting, Abm. J., son of Josiah 494 

Elting. Abm. V. N.. son of Solomon 492 

m. Elmira Hasbrouck 400 

Elting, Alexander, son of Ezekiel 492 

m. DuBois 304 

Elting, Andries 271-2 

Elting. .\ndries, son of Josiah 491 

Elting. Blandina, da. of Cornelius 497 

Elting, Brodhead, son of Roelif 493 

Elting. Catharine, da. of Ezekiel, wife of Andries Deyo 271, 492 

Elting, Catharine, da. of Josiah, wife of Jacobus Hardenburgh 487 

Elting, Catharine, da. of Roelif J 491 

wife of Philip Elting 493 

Elting. Catharine, wife of Philip Elting 496 

Elting. Catharine, wife of .\ndries Deyo 271 

Elting. Catrina. da. of Roelif 483 

Elting. Charles, .son of Josiah 494 

m. Magdalen Bevier 248 

Elting. Cornelia, da. of Josiah, wife of Peter Deyo 271, 491 

Elting, Rev. Cornelius, son of Cornelius, m. Catherine Hardenbergh 497 

Elting, Cornelius, son of Jan, m. Rebecca Van Metten 482 

Filing, Cornelius, son of Josiah 494 

ni. Blandina Elmendorf 487, 497 

Filing. Cornelius C. son of Cornelius, lu. Maria Ann Bevier 251 

Filing, Daniel, son of Roelif 493 

Filing. David, son of Noah 496 

Elting. David, son of Solomon 492 

Elling. Dcrick W., m. dn. of Jonathan DuBois 321 

Filing, l~)erick W.. m. Magdalen Filing 491 

Filing, Dinah, da of Ezekiel. wife of C. Brodhead. 402 

Filing. Dinah, da. of Philip I'/i 



558 INDEX 

PAGE 

Elling, Dinah, wife of Rodif Kiting 492 

Elting, Dr. Edgar, son of Abm. J 494 

Eltingc, Edmund 49. 61, 100, 290, 309, 314, 383. 483, 485 

Elting. Elizabeth, wife bf Daniel A. Deyo 268 

Elting, Ezekiel 463, 494 

Elting, Ezekiel, son of Roelif J 491, 493 

m. Magdalen Elting 492 

Elting. Ezekiel, son of Solomon 492 

Elting, George, son of John 492 

Elting, (k-rtriulc, da. of Philip 496 

Elting. Gilbert, m. da. of Dr. Maurice Wirtz 466 

Elting. Gitty, da. of Josiah, wife of Cornelius D. LeFevre 491 

Elting, Grietje, da. of Jan. wife of Thomas Wall 482 

Elting, Henry, son of Abram 494, 496 

Elting. Henry D.. son of Noah 496 

Elting. Jacob 484 

Elting, Jacob, son of Ezekiel 492 

m. I, Gitty LeFevre 421 

Elting. Jacobus, son of Abram 494 

Elting, Jacomyntje, da. of Roelif 483 

wife of William Codebec 484 

Elting, Jacomyntje, wife of Noah Elting 485 

Eltingc. Jan 12. 13. 14. 58. 109 

Elten, Jan, son of Roelif, first of the family in Ulster County 481 

ni. Jacomyntje Slecht 482 

Elting, Jane, da. of Abram 494 

Elting, Jane, da. of Cornelius, wife of Mathcw Oliver 497 

Elting. Jane, da. of Ezekiel 492 

2d wife of Solomon P. LeFevre 432 

Elting, Jane, ist wife of Roelif Hasbrouck ^y^ 

Elting, Jane V. W., da. of Rev. Wilhelmus, wife of Augustus Has- 
brouck 387. 497 

Elting, Jesse 29 

Elting. Jesse, son of Philip. . .' 496 

Elting, Johannes rjohn). son of Roelif 483 

Elting, John 310 

Elting, John, son of George 492 

Elting, John, son of Roelif J., m. Jane Wurts 492 

Elting, Joseph, son of Noah 496 

Elting. Josiah 99- 106, 299 

Elting, Josiah, son of Abram, m. Hester Brodhead 494 

Elting. Josias or Josiah. son of Roelif 483. 484. 490, 491 

m. Helena DuBois .^07. 310. 487 

Elting. Josiah. son of Roelif J., m. Sarah LeFevre 491 

Elting. Josiah. m. Emily Deyo 277 

Eltingc. Josias, .Assessor of New Paltz and Fence Viewer 300 

Elting. Katie, da. of Cornelius, wife of Dr. Peter Crispell 497 

Elting. Luther, son of Abram 49<'» 

Elting. Magdalen, da. of Josiah. wife of Derick W. Elting 491 

Elting. Magdalen, da. of Philip 49^ 

wife of .\ndrics P. LeFevre 432 

Elting. Magilalen. da. of Roelif J 49i 

wife of Peter LeFevre 442, 447. 493 

Elting. Magdalen, wife of Ezekiel Elting 492 

Elting. Margaret, da. of .Abram 494 



INDEX 559 



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Eltinge, Margaret, da. of Roelif 483 

wife of Abraham Bevier 9^^. 484 

Elting. Maria, da. of Cornelius, wife of Louis Bevier 233, 250, 251 

Kiting, Maria, da. of Ezekiel, wife of Andries DuBois 492 

Elting, Maria, da. of Josiah, wife, ist, of Dr. John Bogardus ; 2d, 

of' Abm. P. LeFevre , 49r 

Elting, Maria, da. of Philip 496 

Elting, Maria, da. of Roelif J .' 49i 

wife of Garret DuBois 493 

Elting Maria, da. of Rev. Wilhelmus, wife of Cornelius Van 

Winkle • • 497 

Elting, Mathusalem, son of Philip 4o7, 49o 

Elting, Mathusalem, m. Magdalen LeFevre 43i 

Elting, Moses, son of Philip 49o 

Elting Nathaniel, ni. da. of Dr. Maurice Wirtz 400 

Eltinge, Noah 62, 312. 383. 419 

Elting. Philip, son of Abram 487- 494 

m. Hannah Deyo A " " W "^o^ 

Elting. Noah, son of Roelif 100, 483. 484, 480 

m. Jacomyntje Elting 485 

Eltinge. Noah, Collector of New Paltz 30o 

Elting, Norman, son of Abm. J 494 

Elting, Peter, son of John • • • 484 

Eltinge, Peter, son of William, son of William, son of Jan. m. 

Cornelia Wynkoop • 486 

Elting, Philip, son of Abram 487, 494 

Elting. Philip, son of Noah, m. Catharine Eltmg 493- 496 

Elting, Philip D 49-2 

Elting. Philip L. F 49i 

Elting, Pollv, da. of Cornelius, wife of David Bevier 497 

Elting. Rachel, da. of Josiah, wife of Ralph LeFevre 443- 49i 

Elting, Rebecca, da. of Philip 496 

Elting. Dr. Richard, son of Josiah 494 

m. Elizabeth Hasbrouck • • • • ■ 3o4 

Elting. Roelif ^. • -••,-^'' 58. 63. 92. 106. .^02 

Eltinge. Roelif. deed to. from Solomon DuBois and Louis Uu- 

Boi's. Jun •!'•* 

Elting. Roelif. son of Abraham ■ 4^4 

N Elting. Roelif, son of Jan ; 4^2, 4»4 

m. Sarah, da. of Abraham DuBois 289. 4»3 

Elting, Roelif, son of Josiah 49' 

Elting, Roelif. son of Roelif J., m. Dinah Eltmg 492 

Elting, Roelif, son of Solomon 492 

Elting, Roelif, m. Blandina LeFevre 42» 

Elting, RcK'lif, soldier in Kingston Comp. 1713 "7 

Elting. Roelif J., son of Josias ^' ' a, .?^ 

m. Maria Low 469. 4»7. 49t 

Ehing. Roelif S.. m. Catharine LeFevre 42i 

Elting, Sarah, <la. of Ezckiel ■:■■■■■-:■■■■■■■■ .W- ■*«;. 

Elting Sarah da. of Noah, wife of Dirck Wynkoop 4»^. 4«'» 

Flting. Sarah, da. of Roelif T •^'^" 

wife of William Deyo. -J*'-] 

Elting, Solomon, son of Cornelius 40/ 

Elting! Solomon, son of Ezekicl 492 

Elting. Solomon. >;on of Josiah 4»7 



sCkd / A' I) E X 



Elting. Solomon, son of Roclif J 491 

m. I. Cornelia LeFcvrc : 2. Rachel Eckcrt 492 

Elting. Solomon, son of Solomon 492 

Elting. Solomon, m. Cornelia LeFevre 426 

Elting, Sol. L. F., son of Mathusalem 100, 487, 494, 496 

Elting. Tobias, son of Solomon. . ., 492 

Elting, Watson 494 

Elting, Rev. Wilhelmus, son of Cornelius, m. Jane Houseman 497 

Elting. William, sun of Jan, m. Jane LeSaeur 482 

Elting, William, soldier in Kingston Co. 1715 117 

Elting, . da. of John Kiting, wife of Thomas Deyo 278 

Eltings of Hurley 497 

English, Lieut. Samuel 331 

Erwin, James . ' 501 

Esterly, Linus, m. Rebecca Hasbrouck 389 

Evans. Capt. John 61, 62, 485 

Evertson, Nicholas, m. Clara Hasbrouck 392 

Ferree. Catharine, wife of Isaac LeFevre of Penna 408 

Ferree, Madame 408 

Ferrie. Philip, of Lancaster Co.. Pcnna.. m. Leah DuBois 289 

Ferris. Julia, da. of Nathaniel Hull DuBois 345 

Fletcher. Governor 61 

Field, Phebe, wife of Jonathan Hasbrouck ,?92 

Fontaine, John ^37 

(Freer, Frere, Frear.) 

Freer, Abraham, son of Hugo the Patentee.. 10. ^2. 89, gi. 92, 349, 351, 358 

m. Haignies ( PAgnes) Titesorte 41. 36;^. 3-7 

Freer, Abraham. Jun., son of Abraham 363 

m. 1, Janitje DegrafF : 2. Johanna Louis 364 

Freer, Abraham, son of Jacob .^64 

Freer, Abraham, son of William 3(>3 

Freer, .A.gatha. wife of Isaac Deyo 275 

Freer. Annetje, da. of Jacob 365 

Freer, Lieut, .\nthony 35° 

Freer. Antie, wife of Jacobus Bevier 243, 246 

Freer, Benj amin 265 

Freer. Benjamin, son of Hugo. Sr 3-7 

Freer. Benjamin, •^on of Hugo, Jun 98 

Freer. Benjamin, .son of Hugo, Jun.. m. Elizabeth Terwilligcr 359 

Freer, Benjamin, son of William .^64 

Freer, Benjamin 1 100 

Freer. Blondini ( Blandina ), da. of Gerrit J .^65 

Freer, Catharine, da. of Hugo, 2d wife of Isaac Van Wagenen 333 

Freer. Catharine, wife of Jonathan LeFevre 4-20. 422 

Freer, Charles 361 

Freer, Cornelia, da. of Gerrit J .^65 

Freer, Cornelis. son of Jacob .164 

Freer, Daniel, son of Isaac ist, m. Annitje Deyo 360 

Lieut. .3d Ulster County Regiment 330- M^ 

Freer, Daniel, son of Jacob .^^ 

Freer. Daniel, Jun .^"O 

Freer. Dinah, da. of Hugo 2d, wife of Michael Van Kleeck 333 

Freer, Elias, son of Jonas 2d 361, 363 

Freer, Elias. son of John J .W 



INDEX SOI 



Freer, Elisa (Eliasj, son of Jonas 1st 361 

Freer, Elizabeth, da. of Hugo 2d 353, 527 

Freer, Esther, da. of Hugo 2d, 42, 527 

wife of John Terpening 353 

Freer, Ezekiel, of Grahow 359 

Freer, Garret, son of Hugo 3d 98 

Freer, Garret, son of Hugo, Jun., m. Maria Freer 359 

Freer, Garret, Jun 359 

Freer, Gerrett. soldier Kingston Co. 1738 118 

Freer, Gcrrit, .•^on of Jean, m. Elizabeth Van Vliet 365 

Freer, Gerritt J., son of Jacob, m. Gertje Van Vliet 365 

Freer, Henry D. B., son of Zacharias 313, 360 

Frere, Hugo 106, 309 

Frere, Hugo, the Patentee, ist 10, 13, 15, 37. 51, 52, 58, 61 

Freer, Hugo, ist or the Patentee, m. i, Mary Haye 349, 509 

2, Jannetj e Wibau 351, 527 

Frere. Hugo ist. wife of, dies 41 

Freer. Hugo, 2d or Sr 10, 50-2, 61, 75, 89, 92, 349, 351, 527 

Frere, Hugo, 2d, m. Alary Ann LeRoy 39, 352, 356, 527 

Freer, Hugo, Sr., deed from, to his children 353, 356 

will of 358 

Freer. Hugo. 3d or Jun., son of Hugo 2d 

40, 61, 75. 91, 92, 98, 352, 353, 504. 509 

Freer, Hugo, Jun., m. Bridget Terpening 358 

Freer. Hugo. 4th. son of Hugo. Jun 98 

Freer. Hugo, 4th. son of Hugo, Jan., m. Van Aken 359 

Freer. Hugo Ab.. son of Abraham, m. Marytje Dewitt 363 

Freer, Hugo B., son of Hugo 4th 359 

Freer. Isaac loi, 106 

Freer, Isaac, son of Hugo ist, the Patentee 10, 61, 261, 349, 351, 509 

dies young 40. 352 

Freer, Isaac, son of Hugo, 2d or Sr 41, 352, 353 

Freer. Isaac, i st, son of Hugo 2d 527 

m. Mary Deyo 35^ 

in Capt. Hoffman's Co 360 

Freer, Isaac, 2d. son of Isaac ist, m. Hester Jansen 360 

Freer. Isaac, 3d. son of Isaac 2d 360 

Freer, Isaac, son of Jacob 364 

Freer, Isaac, son of Zacharias .^60 

Freer. Isaac, Fence Viewer, New Paltz 300 

Freer. Jacob 10^ 

Freer. Jacob, son of Hugo ist. the Patentee 58. 75. 89. qi. 92. 35^ 

Freer. Jacob, son of Hugo the Patentee, m. Aritje Van Wagen 

(' Weyen) 364. 527 

Freer. Jacob, son of Hugo, 2d or Sr 352 

Freer. Jacob, son of Jean, m. Annitje Van Aken 365 

Freer. Jacob, son of Jacob, son of Jean 365 

Freer. Jacob, son of William ^^3 

Freer. Jacob. Jun., son of Jacob, m. Sarah Freer. 3(^4 

Freer. Jacob J '^'^4 

Freer. Capt Jacobus V^o 

Freer. Jan (John), son of Gerrit J .^'^S 

writes his name "John G." ^^ 

m. Dina Rose ^'^ 

Freer. Tan. <:on of Jacob. ''^'" 



50J INDEX 

PAt.K 

Freer, Jan. soldier in Kingston Gjiuj). 1715 117 

Freer, Jan, soldier Ulster County Militia 1738 118 

F"reer, Janitje, da. of Hugo 2d 353, 527 

Freer, Janitje, wife of Jacobus Deyo 260, 261 

Freer, Jannitjc, da. of Jean 363 

Freer, Jean, son of Hugo the Patentee 52, 352, 358 

m. Rebecca Van VVagenen 365, 527 

Freer, Johannes, .son of Solomon, in. Hester Lounsberry 363 

Freer, Johannes, son of Zacharias 360 

Freer, Johannes, Jun., son of Jonas ist, m. Sarah, da. of Abm. 

Bevier 247. 361 

Freer, Col. John 350 

Freer, John, son of Abraham, Jun., Colonel 4th Dutchess County 

Regiment 364 

Freer, John, son of Hugo, Jun 98 

Freer, John, son of Hugo, Jun., m. Hagetta Deyo 359 

Freer. John G., son of Gerrit, son of Jacob 365 

Freer, John J., son of Johannes, soldier in Revolution 363 

Freer. Jonas 53. 92. 106 

Freer, Jonas, son of Hugo 2d 98, 353. 334 

Freer. Jonah, son of Hugo 2d, m. Catherine Stokhard 358, 361 

will of 361 

Freer, Jonas, 2d, son of Jonas ist 361 

Freer, Jonas, m. Magdalen Bevier 246 

Freer Jonathan 351 

Freer, Jonathan, Jun.. son of Jonas 2d 363 

Freer, Joseph loi 

Freer. Joshua, son of Jonas 2d 363 

Freer, Lidia, da. of Gerrit J 365 

Freer, Magdalen, wife of Christian Bevier 247 

Freer, Maria, da. of Hugo. Sr 41 

wife of Isaac LeFevre. 353, 415, 433 

Freer. Maria, da. of Zacharia 360 

Freer, Maria, wife of .Xbraham A. Bevier 244. 246 

Freer, Maria, wife of Peter Ean 477 

Freer, Maria, wife of Garret Freer 359 

Freer. Martins, son of Johannes, Jun 361 

m. Maria Deyo 260 

Freer, Mary. da. of Hugo the Patentee 10 

wife of Lewis Viele 352, 527 

Freer. Marytje. da. of Jean 365 

Freer. Nathan M 363 

Frere, Nelletie. da. of .'Kbrani 41 

Freer, Peter, son of Jacob 365 

Freer. Peter, ni. Anna DuBois 303 

Freer. Peter. W. A., son of Elias 361 

Freer. Petrus. son of Jonas ist 361 

Freer. Philip, son of Abraham 363 

m. Catharine Scharp 364 

Freer. Rachel, da. of Hugo 2d. wife of Hendrick Ter Boss 353 

Freer, Rebecca, da. of Hugo, Sr., wife of Johannes M. Low 353, 469 

Freer, Romeo H 260, 361 

Freer. Samuel, editor Kingston Gazette 350 

Freer. Sarah, da. of Hugo ist. apprenticed to a dressmaker 31 

Freerl Sarah, da. of Hugo the Patentee, wife of Teunis Clausen 

Van Volgen 352, 527 



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Freer. Sarah, da. of Hugo 2d, wife of Evert Tervvilliger 353 

Freer. Sara, da. of Jean 365 

Freer. Sarah, wife of Jacob Freer, Jun 364 

Freer. S. C. Paine 363 

Freer. Selitje, da. of Gerrit J 365 

Freer, Simeon, son of Jonas 2d 363 

Freer. Simon, son of Hugo 2d 352. 353 

m. Mariten VVamboon 359 

Freer. Simon, son of Jonas ist 361 

Frere, Solomon, son of Abraham and wife Achsah 41-2 

Freer, Solomon, son Abraham, m. Claritje Westvaal 363, 528 

Freer. Solomon, soldier Kinp-ston Co.. 1738 1 18 

Freer. Stephen, son of Elias 361 

Freer. Thomas 61, 360 

Freer, Thomas, son of Abraham, Jun 364 

Freer. Thomas, son of Isaac 2d 360 

Freer. Thomas, son of Zacharias 360 

Freer, William, son of Abraham, m. Maryanette Van Kuykendall. . 363 

Freer, William, son of Gerritt 365 

Freer, William, son of Gerrit J 365 

Freer, Z.. m. Jane DuBois 313 

Freer, Capt. Zachary 350 

Freer, Zacharias, son of Isaac 2d, m. Rachel DuBois 360 

Captain in War of 1812 360 

Freer, wife of Abram Deyo 279 

Freer, , wife of Abm. P. Schoonmaker 363 

Freer, , wife of Philip Schoonmaker 363 

Freer. . wife of Archa P. Van Wagenen 363 

Freligh. Rev. Peter D 137 

Frelinghuysen. Rev. John, widow of, m. Jacob Rutze Hardenbergh 460 

Frelinghuysen Rev. Theodorns 145 

Freyenmoet. Rev. Cas])arus 143 

Furman. Lieut. John 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery' 332 

Galespie. Capt. 7,7,-j 

Gano, Lieut. Daniel '. 328 

resigns 329 

Gano. John. Chaplain 330 

letter from 333 

Garland. Thomas 422. 423 

Garland. Patent 62, 266 

Gerrit son. Jacob 482 

Gerritson. Tryntje. wife of Solomon DuBois 305 

Gier. Sally, wife of David Bevier 234, 2^s 

Gilbert. Fbenezcr 96 

Gillett. Silas m. Sarah Vernooy Bevier 242 

Giron. Jean (John"), of Quebec, letter from, to Hugo Freer. Sr. and 

wi f e 354 

from Croance. France 357 

m. Madeline des Chalets 357 

Goddard. .\deline. da. of William C .U.5 

Goddard. F.dward. son of William C .M^ 

Goddard. F.mily. da. of William C .^45 

Goddard. William, son of William C .^45 

Goddard. William C. m. Melissa DuBois 345 



564 INDEX 

Goetschius, Rev. J. H 144 

Goetschius, Rev. Johs. Mauritius M7 

Goetschius, Rev. Maurice, the Doctor-Dominie 95, 100, 4*^4 

Goetschius, Rev. Stephen 4O4 

Goetschius, Rev. Stephen, m. Elizabeth DuBois 322 

Goetschius, , m. Harriet Schoonmaker 500 

Goforth. Major William 328 

Gonsaulus. Manuel, ni. Sarah Bevier 237 

Goodwin, Capt. Henry 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

Gosman, Robert, m. Maria Hasbrouck 384 

Graham, James 61, 309, 37b 

Gray. Oliver 96 

Green, Martha, wife of John Bevier 234, 235 

Gregg, Lieut. James 328 

Griifen, Joseph 95 

Griffen, Elenor, wife of Solomon Bevier 244, 245 

Griffin, Martynes 265 

Gross, Sanuiel E.. of Chicago, a descendant of Isaac DuBois 307 

Gryn, Richard 261 

(Guimar, Gumaer.) 

Guimar, Peter, of Moir, Saintonge, France 40 

Guimar, Peter, son of Peter, m. Esther, da. of Jean Hasbrouck. . . . 

1 , 40, 254. 400 

Gumaer, Peter, of Minnisinck, m. Esther DuBois 293 

Gumaer, Peter 5o7 

Hagnette, , godmother 41 

Hall. , Sheriff 14 

Hallock, Arabella, wife of Daniel A. Deyo 268 

Hamtramk, Capt. 337 

Hamtramk, Capt. John F 33 1. 342 

Hanmer, Lieut. Francis .^ i 

Ensign 342 

(Hardcnberg, Hardenburgh.) 

Hardenbcrgh. Abraham 97- 109 

Hardcnbcrgh. Abraham, son of Johannes, m. i. Marj^je Roosa ; 

2, Mary Hasbrouck 456 

Hardenbcrgh, Abraham, grandson of Abraham 97 

Hardenbcrgh, Abraham, elected Supervisor of New Paltz 300 

Hardenburgh. Abm. J., of Guilford and Shawangunk. son of John A. 457 

m. Margaret DuBois 311. 45^ 

Colonel in 1812 458 

Hardcnbcrgh, .Alexander, son of John A 457- 458 

ITardcnburgh, Benjamin 448 

Hardenbcrgh. Benjamin F 463 

Hardcnbcrgh, Catharine, da. of Col. Johannes 461 

IL-irdcnbcrgh. Catharine, wife of Nathaniel Deyo 269 

Hardcnbcrgh. Catharine, da. of Jacobus, wife of Rev. Cornelius 

Elting • 4U7 

Hardenbcrgh, Charles, son of Abraham J 458, 4tx) 

Hnrdcnhergh. Charles, son of John A 457- 458 

Hardcnbcrgh, Charles, son of Johannes. Jun 463 

Hardenbcrgh. Charles, son of Col. Johannes, m. Catharine Smedes. 460 

Hardcnb\irgh, Charles, m. LeFevre 438 



INDEX 565 

PACE 

Hardenbei-gh, Cornelia, wife of Mathcvv Bevier 240 

Hardenbcrgli, David, son of Abraham J 458, 460 

Hardcnbergh, Ditmas, son of Abraham J 458^ 460 

Hardcnbcrgh, Ehas, son of Abraham '4-7 

Hardcnbergh, Gerardus, son of Col. Johannes, m. Nancy Ryerson. . 461 

Hardcnbergh, Gerrit Jans, m. Jcapic Schepmoes 455 

Hardcnbergh, Gertrude, da. of Abraham J., wife of Aldert Schoon- 

ni'-^I^er 453 

Hardcnbergh, Isaac, son of Johannes, Jun 463 

Hardcnbergh, Jacob, son of Jacob 458 

Hardcnbcrgh. Jacob, son of John A 457 

m. Jane DiiBois 458 

Hardcnbcrgh, Jacob, son of Richard 29. 463 

State Senator ' 266 

Hardcnburgh. Jacob, m. Jane DuBois 311 

Hardcnbergh, Jacob, grandson of Abraham 97 

Hardcnbcrgh, Jacobus, m. Catharine Elting 487 

Hardcnbcrgh. Jacob Rutze, son of Col. Johannes, m. Dinah Van 

Bcrgh, widow of Rev. John Frclinghuysen 460 

First President of Rutgers College 461 

Hardcnbcrgh, Johannes 318, 504 

Hardcnburgh, Col. Johannis ^■^^ 

Hardcnbergh, Johannes, son of Gerrit Jans 455 

Colonel Ulster County Regiment ; m. Catherine Rutzen ; re- 
ceives Hardcnbergh Patent 456 

Hardcnbcrgh. Sir Johannes, knighted by Queen Ann 455 

Hardcnbcrgh. Johannes, of Rosendale, son of Col. Johannes ist. . . 456 

Colonel Ulster County Regiment 460 

m. Maria DuBois 314, 460 

Hardcnbcrgh, Johannes, Jun 109 

Hardcnbcrgh. Lieut. -Col. Johannis, Jun 327 

Hardcnbergh, Johannes, Jun., son of Col. Johannes 460 

m. IVfary LcFevre ; Lieut.-Col. 4th Ulster County Regiment; 

Sojourner Truth, slave of 435, 461 

Hardcnbcrg, Johannes, or John, A., son of Abraham, Captain in 

Revolution, m. Rachel DuBois 457 

Hardcnburgh, John 63 

Hardcnbergh, John, son of Louis 463 

Hardcnburgh. Capt. John A 124 

m. Rachel DuBois 3T1 

Hardcnbcrgh, John Charles 268 

Hardcnbcrgh, John L.. m. i. Maria Bevier; 2. Martha BrinkerhofT. 237 

Hardcnbcrgh, Josiah, son of Abraham J 458, 463 

Hardcnbcrgh, Lewis, son of Col. Johannes, m. Catharine Waldron. 460 

Hardcnbcrgh, T,ewis, son of Johannes, Jun 463 

Hardcnbergh, Louis, son of Richard 463 

Hardcnbcrgh. Afargarct, ist wife of Jacob Hasbrouck. Jun 402 

Hardcnbcrgh. Marichie, da. of John A 457 

Hardcnbcrgh. ATaritje. da. of Abr.nham 457 

Hardcnbcrgh. Mary, da. of John Charles, wife of Jonathan Deyo. . 268 

Hardcnbcrgh. Mary, wife of John P. LcFevre 438, 448 

Hardcnbcrgh. Nicholas, son of .Xbraham 457 

Hardcnbcrgh. Peter, son of Johannes. Jun 463 

Hardcnbergh, Rachel, da. of .\braham 457 

Hardcnbergh. Rachel, da. of Jacob, wife of Crines Jenkins 97. 458 



566 IXDEX 

PACK 

Hardi-nbergh. Rachel, da. of Col. Johannes, wife of Rev. Herman 

Mycr 461 

Hardenbcrgh, Richard 266. 386 

Hardcnbergh, Richard, son of Louis 463 

Hardenbcrgh, Simon, son of Louis 463 

Hardcnburgh, Thomas R.. ni. Rachel Bevier 250-1 

Harris, Emily, da. of Samuel 345 

Harris. Francis, son of Samuel 345 

Harris. Gars 14 

Harris, Ida, da. of Samuel 345 

Harris, Jessie, da. of Samuel 345 

Harris, Joseph, m. Laura Rudd 454 

Harris, Samuel, m. Amanda DuBois 345 

Harris, William, son of Samuel 345 

(Hasbrouck. Hasbroucq. Broecq, Horsbrook. Hasbrocq. Assebrouck) 

Hasbrouck. .\bel, son of Joseph L, m. Ruth Winfield 387 

Hasbrouck. Abner. son of Col. Joe 385 

m. Pamela DuBois 311 

Ha.sbrouck. .Abraham, the Patentee 

10. 13, 15. 19. 52. 56. 61. 62, 89. 91, 92, 256, 362, 509 

Hasbrouck, Abraham, the Patentee, m. Maria, da. of Christian 

Deyo 1 1, 369 

Captain New Paltz Foot Co 368 

Hasbrouck, Abm. 2d 99 

Hasbrouck, Abraham, son of Benjamin 373 

Hasbrouck, Abraham, son of Francis 394 

Hasbrouck, Abraham, son of Jacob 1 404 

Hasbrouck. Abraham, son of Jean, the patentee, goes to live in Eng- 
land 400 

Hasbrouck. .A.braham, son of Gen. Joe. m. Helena Jansen 384 

called A. R. of the Strand 384 

Hasbrouck, Abraham, son of Col. Jonathan 391 

Hasbrouck, Abram, son of Petrus, m. Mary Blanshan 373 

Hasbrouck, Abraham. Jun.. son of Solomon, m. Rachel Sleight. . . . 372 

Hasbrouck. Abm. M.. gt. gr. son of Jacob. Jun 401 

Hasbrouck. Col. Abraham, son of Joseph 97. 376. 380, 485 

Hasbrouck, Col. .\braham, m. Catharina Bruyn 381. 382 

Hasbrouck. Col. Abm 53 

diary of. in possession of his great grand da.. Mrs. George H. 

Sh'arpe 369. 382, 391 

Hasbrouck. Abraham. Capt.. New Paltz Foot Co 117 

Hasbrouck, Abm., Mary Blanshan, widow of, m. Daniel Le Fevre. . 442 

Hasbrouck, A. Bruyn. son of Jonathan 383 

Hasbrouck. Albina. da. of Jacob. Jun 402 

Hasbrouck. Dr. .Mfred. son of Col. Joe 385 

Ha.sbrouck. .Mcxandcr. son of Benjamin 1 404 

Hasbrouck. .Mexander. son of Solomon 450 

Hasbrouck. .Mexander. m. da. of Jonathan Du Bois 321 

Hasbrouck. .^ndrcvv. son of John 375 

Hasbrouck. .\ndries. son of Josaphat. m. Elizabeth Hasbrouck. 371 

Hasbrouck. .Anitje. da. of Jacob A 388 

Hasbrouck, Anna Chittenden, da. of Jacob T.. Jun 404 

Hasbrouck. .\nnie Ingraham. da. of Jacob I., Jun 404 

Hasbrouck. Asa. son of Daniel 392 

Hasbrouck. .\senath, da. of Jacob. Jun 402 



INDEX 567 

VAC.B. 

Hasbrouck, Augustus, son of Joseph 1.. m. Jane W W. J'llting. 

S&7, 497 

Hasbrouck, Benj., m. Annet je Ean 477 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Abrani, the Patentee, baptized.. 41 

m. Jannitje De Long 369, 394 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Benjamin 394 

m. Elizabeth Dickerson, da. of William 389 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Daniel, ni. i, Anitje Bevier 240 

2 .Marie Bevier 247, 372 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Daniel, m. Hannah Green 394 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Francis 394 

soldier in Revolution, m. Rachel Storm 395 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Jacob 400 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Jacobus 373 

Hasbrouck. Benjamin, son of Jonathan 98 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin, son of Joseph, son of Abraham the Pat- 
entee, m. Elidia Schoonmaker 381, 389 

Hasbrouck, Benj. C, son of Cornelius, m. Louise Lyon 389 

Hasbrouck, Benjamin L, son of Isaac 403 

m. I, Catrina Smedes ; 2, Rachel Hasbrouck 404 

Hasbrouck, Betsey, da. of Daniel, wife of Edward Wait 392 

Hasbrouck, Blandina, da. of Wm. C 390 

Hasbrouck, Calvin, son of Joseph 388 

Hasbrouck, Caroline, da. of Benjamin 395 

Hasbrouck, Catharine, da. of Abr. of the Strand, wife of Judge 

G. W. Ludlum 384 

Hasbrouck, Catharine, da. of Benjamin, wife of William John- 
son 389. 395 

Hasbrouck. Catharine, da. of Isaac 403 

Hasbrouck Catharine, da. of Jacobus B.. wife of Joseph Be- 
vier 250. 252 

Hasbrouck. Catharine, da. of Joseph I., wife of Samuel Johnson 387 

Hasbrouck. Catharine .^nn, da. of Joseph, wife of Halsey Lyon. . . 389 

Hasbrouck. Catharine, da. of Roclif. wife of Jacob Rose i7Z 

Hasbrouck. Charles B., son of Roclif 373 

Hasbrouck. Charles H.. son of Eli .392 

Hasbrouck. Charlotte, da. of Isaac S 406 

Hasbrouck. Clara, da. of Daniel, wife of Nicholas Evertson 392 

Hasbrouck, Clinton, son of Roelif i73 

m. Eliza LeFevre 421 

Hasbrouck. Cornelia, da. of Samuel 373 

Hasbrouck. Cornelius, son of Beniamin ist, m. Jane Kelso 389 

Hasbrouck. Dr. Cornelius D.. son of Jacob 1 306. 404 

m. Hannah Van Wagenen 403 

Hasbrouck. Cornelius, son of Joseph 3"! 

Hasbrouck. Cornelius, son of Col. Jonathan, a Royalist .^92 

Hasbrouck, Cyrus, son of Jacob T.. Jun.. killed in Civil War. . . 404 

Hasbrouck. Daniel 75- 106. .353 

trooper in 1715 ^'7 

soldier Ulster County Militia 1738 '»8 

Hasbrouck. Daniel, son of Abm. the Patentee 30. lOO, 411 

Hasbrouck. Daniel, son of Col. .Abraham .W 

m. cousin Rachel Hasbrouck ,/, " ', ^^ 

Hasbrouck. Daniel, son of Benjamin, m - -■ Van Vlorkcn 394 

Hasbrouck. Daniel, son of Daniel .V>4 



568 INDEX 

PAGE 

Hasbroijck, Daniel, son of Elias 374 

Hasbrouck, Daniel, son of Montgomery 374 

Hasbrouck, Daniel, son of Jonas, m. Margaret Schoonmaker. . 371 

Hasbrouck. Daniel, son of Solomon 372 

Hasbrouck, Daniel 60, 299, 309, 316. 370 

m. Wyntje Deyo 261. 369 

Hasbrouck, Daniel A., great-grandson of Josaphat 371 

Hasbrouck, Daniel B., son of Benjamin 372 

Hasbrouck, Daniel 1 271 

son of Isaiah 372 

Hasbrouck, David, son of Daniel 370 

m. Marit je Houghland 372 

Hasbrouck, David, son of Gen. Joe 384 

Hasbrouck, DeWitt. son of Roelif 373 

Hasbrouck. Dinah, da. of Roelif. wife of Jonathan LeFevre... 373 

Hasbrc )uck. DuBois. son of Jacob. Jun 402 

Hasbrouck. DuBois, son of Josiah 403 

Hasbrouck. Edgar, son of Isaac S 406 

m. Jane Bevier 251 

Hasbrouck, Eli, son of Isaac, m. Harriet Belknap 392 

Hasbrouck, Elias, son of Elias 374 

Hasbrouck. Elias, son of Solomon 372 

Captain in Revolution 374 

m. Elizabeth Sleight 374 

Hasbrouck. Eliza, da. of Benjamin, wife of Stephen Ronk 3!^ 

Hasbrouck. Eliza, da. of Dr. Cornelius D., wife of Peter Barn- 
hart 403 

Hasbrouck, Elizabeth, da. of .\br. of the Strand, wife of Dr. 

Richard Elting .^84 

Hasbrouck, Elizabeth, da. of Benjamin 305 

Hasbrouck. Elizabeth, da. of Jean the Patentee .38 

wife of Louis Bevier 226. 400 

Hasbrouck, Elizabeth, da. of Col. Josiah, wife of Josiah Du- 
Bois 3". 40T 

Hasbrouck. Elizabeth, wife of Louis Bevier 233. 249 

Hasbrouck. Elizabeth, wife of Elias Ean 477 

Hasbrouck. Elizabeth, wife of Andries Hasbrouck 371 

Hasbrouck. Ellsje 61 

widow of Joseph, deed from, to her son. Jacob A 388 

Hasbrouck. Elmira. da. of Henry C wife of .^br. V. N. Elting. 406 

Hasbrouck. Elsie, da. of Benjamin, wife of Jabez Ells 380 

Hasbrouck. Elsie, da. of Daniel, son of Abraham the Patentee. 

wife of Peter Smedes 370 

Hasbrouck. Elsie, da. of Daniel, wife of Hornbeck 302 

Hasbrouck. Elsie, da. of Isaac 386 

Hasbrouck. Elsie, da. of Jacob A .388 

Hasbrouck. Elsie, da. of Isaiah 37"^ 

Hasbrouck. Emily .\.. da. of William C .30O 

Hasbrouck. Esther, da. of Isaac 403 

Hasbrouck. Esther, da. of Major Jacob, wife of Dr. George 

Wirtz (Wurts^ 40T. 464 

Hasbrouck, Esther, da. of Jean the Patentee 10. 516 

wife of Peter Guimar i. -54- 400 

Hasbrouck. Evert, son of Philip 375 

Hasbrouck, Ezekjel. son of Isaiah 37^ 



PAGE 

Hasbrouck. Francis, son of Benjamin, m. Elizabeth Swarl- 

wout .^94. 395 

Hasbrouck, Frank 255 

Hasbrouck. Ccorp^e, son of Joseph I., m. Maria Johnson 387 

Hasbrouck. Gilbert, son of Francis 394 

Hasbrouck. Gross, grandson of Captain John 405 

Hasbrouck. Heiltjc, da. of Benjamin 394 

Hasbrouck, Helena, da. of Abr. of the Strand, wife of Henry 

Sharpe 384 

Hasbrouck. Henry C, son of Severyn. m. Nancy Barnes 406 

Hasbrouck. Henry C. son of William C 389 

Lieut. -Col. U. S. A. and Bris-Gen. in war with Spain 390 

Hasbrouck. Henry H., son of Benjamin, m. Ruth Constable... 389 

Hasbrouck. Hiram, son of Dr. Cornelius D 403 

Hasbrouck. Huram, son of Jacob J., Jun 402 

Hasbrouck. Isaac, son of Benjamin 395 

m. Delia Newman 3^9 

Hasbrouck, Isaac, son of Daniel, m. Maria Bevier 244 

Hasbrouck. Isaac, son of Jacob, son of Jean the Patentee .3S7 

m. Maria Bruyn 400. 402 

Hasbrouck. Isaac, son of Jacob I 4^4 

Hasbrouck, Isaac, son of Jean the Patentee, soldier in 1711. . . . rr7 

dies probably in Queen Anne's War 171 1 400 

Hasbrouck, Isaac, son of Col. Jonathan, m. Hannah Birdsall 392 

Hasbrouck. Isaac, son of Joseph, son of .^braham the Pat- 
entee, m, Antje Low, w'idow of John Van Gaasbeck. . . .381. 3S6 

Hasbrouck. Isaac S., son of Severyn. m. Matilda Barnes 406 

Hasbrouck. Isaiah .^o. 271. 48.^ 

Hasbrouck. Isaiah, son of Daniel, m. Mary Bevier 371 

Hasbrouck. Isaiah, son of Isaiah .^7^ 

Hasbrouck. Isaiah, son of Jonas, m. Elizabeth Westbrook 371 

Hasbrouck. Israel, son of Isaac 392 

Hasbrouck. Jacob 7> 106. 309. 316, .383, 414 

Hasbrouck, Tacob, of Marbletown, m. Sarah DuBois 310 

Hasbrouck, Major Jacob, of New Paltz, m. Janitje DuBois 310 

Hasbrouck, Jacob, trooper in 1715 ^'i? 

soldier Leister County Militia 17.38 n8 

Hasbrouck, Jacob, son of Benjamin, son of Abraham the Pat- 
entee .W 

Hasbrouck, Jacob, son of Benjamin, son of Joseph, m. Char- 
lotte Thorn .389 

Ha'^brouck. Jacob, son of lean the Patentee 29. .38 

m. Hester Bevier ." 227. 400 

Hasbrouck. Jacob. Jun 62. 99. 441. 48.^ 

Hasbrouck. Jacob. Jun.. son of Jacob 29 

m. Jane DuBois 400 

Captain in Revolution 400 

TLn-brouck. Jacob A., son of Joseph, son of .Abraham the Pat- 
entee, m. Maria Hornbeck .38r, 3S7 

will of .v88 

Ha'^brourk. Tacob L. son of Isaac, m. Sarali DuBois 403 

Hasbrouck. Jacob I.. Jun.. son of Jacob L. m. Catherine Knicker- 
bocker 404 

Hasbrouck. Jacob T.. son of Jacob. Jun 401. 402 

m. T. Marcraret Hardenberph: 2, Anna DuBoi< }J2. 402 



570 INDHX 

PACE 

Hasbrouck. Jacobus, son of Jacob 1 404 

Hasbroiick, Jacnbus. son of Solomon yS, ^72 

Hasbrouck. Jacobus Bruyn, son of Isaac 403 

Lieutenant in Revolution 403 

m. Ann Abeel 406 

Hasbrouck, James.- son of Col. Abraham .^83 

Hasbrouck. James, son of Francis 394 

Hasbrouck. James, son of Gen. Joe 384 

m. Henrietta Cornelia Bevier ^31 

Hasbrouck. Jane. da. of Benjamin 389 

Hasbrouck. Jane. da. of Isaac, wife of John Crispell 386 

Hasbrouck. Jane, da. of Louis 385 

Hasbrouck. Jane, da. of Joseph L. wife of Cornelius DeWitt.. . S^7 
Hasbrouck. Jane, da. of Col. Josiah, wife of Joseph Hasbrouck 401 

Hasbrouck, Jansen, son of Abraham of the Strand .384 

Hasbrouck, Jean (John), the Patentee 

. 1. 13, 15, 28, 55, 36, 89. 91. 256, 293, 362, 369. 397 

m. Anna Deyo 10. 508 

Hasbrouck. Jeremiah, son of Petrus. m. Bruyn 373 

Hasbrouck, Jean. m. Hasbrouck, da. of Jacob A 388 

Hasbrouck. John, son of Daniel, m. Mary Backus 394 

Hasbrouck. John, son of Elias 374 

Hasbrouck. John, son of Isaac 403 

m. Mary. da. of Jacob A. Hasbrouck 404 

Captain in Revolution 405 

Hasbrouck. John, son of John 375 

Hasbrouck. John, son of Joseph, m. Rachel .Ann Traphagen 

antl moves to Michigan 389 

Hasbrouck. John. sr>n of Solomon 99. 372 

m. McDonald 375 

Hasbrouck. John, son of Zacharias 372 

Hasbrouck. John H 373 

Hasbrouck. John L., son of David .384 

Hasbrouck, John. W.. son of Montgomery .^74 

Hasbrouck. Jonas, son of Abraham, baptized 40 

dies young 369 

Hasbrouck. Jonas, son of Daniel 370 

m. Catharine DuBojs .37' 

Hasbrouck. Jr.nathan. son of Col. Abraham 383 

Hasbrouck. Jonathan, son of Isaac, m. Phebc Field .392 

Hasbrouck. Jr.nathan. son of Col. Jonathan 392 

Hasbrouck. Col. Jonathan . . i. .327. 4^^^ 

son of Joseph, son of Abraham the Patentee, m. Tryntje. da. of 

Cornelius DuBois 310. 381. .390 

builds Washington's Headquarters at Newburg 390 

Colonel in Revolution 391 

Hasbrouck. Judge Jonathan 430 

Hasbrr.uck. Jr.sapliat. son of Daniel, m. Cnrnelia DuBois. .. .300. 371 

Hasbrouck. Josaphat. son of Jonas, m. — DuBois 371 

Hasbrouck. Joseph 89. 414 

Hasbrouck. Joseph, son .\bram the Patentee, baptized .3^^ 

mentioned 61. 63. 375. 380 

m. Ellsje Schoonmakcr .369 

Hasbrouck, Joseph, son of Col. Abr.. called "Gen. Joe." Lieut. - 

Col. Cantinc's Regiment 377- .^84 

m. Elizabeth Bevier 250. 383 



INDEX 571 

PAGE 

Hasbrouck. Joseph, son of Benjamin, m. Rebecca Kelso 389 

Hasbrouck, Joseph, son of Jacob A.. Ensign, Lieutenant and 

Captain in Revohition 388 

Hasbrouck, Joseph, son of Col. Jonathan 391 

Hasbrouck. Joseph, son of Gen. Joe, called •'Col. Joe" 377, 384, 385 

Hasbrouck, Joseph, m. Jane, da. of Col. Josiah Hasbrouck 401 

Hasbrouck. Joseph, m. Sarah M. LeFevre 427 

Hasbrouck, Joseph. Jun 61, 376 

Hasbrouck, Joseph, Jun., son of Joseph L 385 

Hasbrouck, Joseph I., son of Isaac, m. Cornelia Schoonmaker. 386 

Hasbrouck, Joseph L., son of Col. Joe 277, 385 

Hasbrouck. Joseph Osterhoudt. son of Joseph I., m. Eliza Ray 387 

Hasbrouck. Col. Josiah, son of Jacob. Jun 29, 311 

m. Sarah Decker ; Lieutenant 3rd Ulster Regiment 401 

Hasbrouck, Dr. Josiah. son of DuBois 403 

Hasbrouck. Josiah. son of Isaiah 371 

Hasbrouck, Josiah. son of Jacob 1 403 

m. Cornelia Deyo 270 

Hasbrouck, Josiah J 435 

Hasbrouck. Josiah Lewis, son of Jacob I.. Jun 404 

Hasbrouck. Laura Maria, da. of Louis 386 

Hasbrouck. Levi 398 

Hasbrouck. Levi, son of Joseph L. m. Mary Decker 387 

Hasbrouck. Levi, son of Col. Josiah 29. 401 

ni. Hylah Bevier 251 

Hasbrouck. Levi, son of Louis 386 

Hasbrouck. Lodewj^ck 388 

Hasbrouck. Lorenzo, son of Henry C 406 

Hasbrouck. Louis, son of Isaac, soldier in Revolution 403 

m. Catharine Decker 406 

Hasbrouck. Louis, son of Jacob. Jun 402 

Hasbrouck, Louis, son of James 385 

Hasbrouck. Louis, son of Joseph, son of Abraham, m. Catha- 
rine, da. of Justus Banks 385 

Hasbrouck. Louis, son of Louis, son of Joseph, m. i. Louise Sey- 
mour Allen : 2. Sarah Maria, da. of Levi Hasbrouck 386 

Hasbrouck. Louis, son of Louis, son of Louis 386 

Hasbrouck. Louis, son of Gen. Joe ,384 

Hasbrouck. Louis I., son of Jacob L. m. Margaret Van VIeck 404 

Hasbrouck. Louisa, da. of Louis 385 

Hasbrouck. Luther, son of Gen. Joe 384 

Hasbrouck, I,uther. grandson of Jacob. Jun 401 

Hasbrouck. Luther. Jane Westbrook. widow of. 2d wife of 

Jonas N. LeFevre 431 

Hasbrouck. Lydia. da. of Benjamin .^89 

Hasbrouck. Magdalen, da. of Roelif. wife of Daniel DuBois. . . .301. ^,7}, 

Hasbrr)uck. Margaret, da. of Cornelius, wife of Capt. F.Ii Perry .189 

Hasbrouck. Margaret, da. of Daniel, wife of Severyn Bruvn. . . 302 
Hasbrouck. Margaret, da. of Jacob I., wife of Dr. \\'^iniani 

Peters 404 

Hasbrouck. Margaret Peters. <!a. of Jacob I.. Jun.. wife of 

James C. Cornish 404 

Hasbrouck. Maria, da. of Abraham of Kingston, wife of David 

Bevier 231. 349. 250 

Hasbrouck. Maria, da. of ,\br. of the Strand, wife of Robert 

Gosman .1^4 



572 INDEX 

PACE 

Hasbrouck, Maria, da. of Isaac 403 

Hasbrouck. Maria, da. of Jacob 1., wife of Dr. Mathevv DeWitt 404 

Hasbrouck. Maria, da. of Joseph I., wife of Thomas Ostrander 387 
Hasbrouck. Maria, d^. of Col. Josiah, wife of Christopher 

Reese 401 

Hasbrouck. Maria Dewitt. da. of Jacob I., Jun 404 

Hasbrouck. Maria H., da. of William C 390 

Hasbrouck, Maria Jane. da. of Joseph, wife of Nathaniel Roos 389 

Hasbrouck, Marie 2>7 

Hasbrouck, Mary, da. of Benjamin 389, 394 

Hasbrouck. Mary, da. of Isaac 392 

Hasbrouck. Mary, da. of Isaiah 37'^ 

Hasbrouck, Mary. da. of Jacob A 3^8 

Hasbrouck, Mary. da. of Jean the Patentee 10, 508 

wife of Isaac DuBois 254, 293, 400 

Hasbrouck, Mary, da. of Col. Jonathan, wife of Capt. Israel 

Smith 392 

Hasbrouck, Mary, da. of Joseph and widow of James Gas- 

hcrie. 2d. wife of Abraham Hardcnberjjh 456 

Hasbrouck, Mathew, son of Isaac S 406 

Hasbrouck. Mathew Do Witt, son of Jacob I.. Jun 404 

Hasbrouck, Mathusalcm, son of Petrus. m. Maria Dcyo 373 

Hasbrouck, Maurice, son of Jacob, Jun 401, 402 

m. DuBois 304 

Hasbrouck, Milton B 37^ 

Hasbrouck. Montgomery, son of Elias 374 

Hasbrouck, Noah, son of Isaiah 371 

Hasbrouck. Oscar, son of Col. Joe 385 

Hasbrouck. Oscar C 2>7i 

Hasbrouck, Peter, son of Elias 374 

Hasbrouck, Peter, son of Philip 375 

Hasbrouck, Petronella, wife of Simon LeFevre 417 

Hasbrouck, Petrus. son of Solomon 99 

m. Sarah, da. of Abr. Bevier 244. 373 

Lieuttnant in Revolution 373 

Hasbrouck, Philip, son of John 375 

Hasbrouck. Philip, son of Gen. Joe 384 

Hasbrouck, Philip, son of Joseph, m. Esther Bevier 250 

Hasbrouck. Philip B., son of James 385 

Hasbrouck, Rachel, da. of Abraham, wife of Louis DuBois 2d 

314, 369 

Hasbrouck, Rachel, da. of David, wife of Benjamin I. Has- 
brouck 404 

Hasbrouck, Rachel, da. of Isaac 392 

Hasbrouck, Rachel, da. of Jacob A .^88 

Hasbrouck. Rachel, da. of Col. Jonathan, wife of Daniel, son 

of Col. .\braham Hasbrouck 39^ 

heroic ride of .103 

Hasbrouck. Rebecca, da. of Joseph, wife of Linus Esterly 380 

Hasbrouck, R<>c, son of William C .389 

Hasbrouck. Roclif, son of Petrus, m. i. Jane Elting; 2, Maria 

DeWitt ?'7?< 

Hasbrouck. Rufus. son of Jacob I., Jun 404 

Hasbrouck. Samuel, son of Daniel 392 

Hasbrouck. Samuel, son of Petrus, m. T.ydia Crispell i73 



INDEX 573 

PAGE 

Hasbruuck, Sarah, da. of Benjamin 395 

Hasbrouck, Sarali, da. of Isaac, wife of Walter Case 392 

Hasbrouck, Sarah, da. of Joseph, wife of John Titus 389 

Hasbrouck, Sarah, da. of Roelif, wife of William W. Deyo.... :i7T, 

Hasbrouck. Sarah B., da. of Joseph I., wife of Daniel Tuthill 386-7 

Hasbrouck, Sarah DuBois, da. of Jacob I., Jun 404 

Hasbrouck, Sarah Maria, da. of Levi, wife of Louis Hasbrouck 386 

Hasbrouck, Sarali Sophia, da. of Louis 385 

Hasbrouck, Sevcryn, son of Isaac 403 

soldier in Revolution 413 

m. I, Maria Dopuy 405 

2, Maria Conklin ' 406 

Hasbrouck, Severyn, son of Isaac S 406 

Hasbrouck, Simon, son of Josaphat 371 

Hasbrouck, Simon, son of Petrus ^y^ 

Hasbrouck, Simon, son of Solomon 372 

Hasbrouck, Solomon 75, 106, 309, 414 

Hasbrouck, Solomon, son of Abm. the Patentee, baptized 38 

m. Sarah Van Wagenen 369, 372 

Hasbrouck, Solomon, son of Petrus, m. Magdalen LeFevre.373, 450 

Hasbrouck, Solomon, trooper in 1715 117 

Hasbrouck, Corporal Solomon, Ulster County Co., 1738 118 

Hasbrouck, Dr. Stephen, son of Joseph I., m. Elsie Schenck. . . 387 

Hasbrouck. Thomas, son of Joseph 389 

Hasbrouck, Tunis, son of Daniel 394 

Hasbrouck, Washington, son of Philip 375 

Hasbrouck. Wilhelmus, son of Jacob 1 404 

Hasbrouck, William, son of David 272, 384 

Hasbrouck, William, son of John 375 

Hasbrouck. William C. son of Cornelius, m. Mary E. Roe 389 

Hasbrouck, William H., son of William C 389 

Hasbrouck. William Peters, son of Jacob I., Jun 404 

Hasbrouck, Wyntje Deyo, wife of Daniel 371 

widow of Daniel 100 

Hasbrouck, Zacharias 265 

son of Daniel, m. Rachel Waring 7,y2 

Hasbrouck. Zacharias, son of Josaphat 371 

Hasbrouck. , da. of Benjamin, wife of Peter Rose 2,72 

Hasbrouck Institute. Jersey City. N. J 375 

Hass. Abraham 96 

Hass. Robert 265 

Haye, Mary, ist wife of Hugo Freer the Patentee 349. 509 

Helm. Elizabeth, wife of Peter Deyo. Jun 275 

Henderson. James. Patent 490 

Henderyckx. Roelif 14 

Hermance. Jacob, m. Sarah Bevier 240 

Higby. Dr. Moses, of New Windsor 337 

Hoffman. Elizabeth, wife rif Jesse Bevier 2.34 

Hoffman. Jacob, m. Marcraret LeFevre 418 

Hoffman, Jan, m. Magdalena Bevier 245 

HofTman, Josiah Ogden 385 

HofTman. Capt. Nichola.<; : 117 

Hoffman. Capt. Zach.nrias. of New Paltr Co.. 1717 118. 417 

Hoffman. Zacharias. Patent 409 

TTnffman. Capt. 250. 360. 363 



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PAliK 

Holmes, Russell, m. i, Mary Ann Bevier; 2, Eleanor Bevicr... 252 

Hoornbeck (Hornbeck), Annatje, wife of Wilhelnius Bevier.. 238 

Hornbeck. Arriantjc, wife of Cornelius Schoonmaker 499 

Hoornbeck. Charity, wife of Louis DuBois Bevier 251 

Hornbeck, Christina, wife of Lewis LeFevre 428 

Hoornbeck, Jophat, ni. Jannetje Bevier 242 

Hornbeck, Dr., m. Elsie Hasbrouck 392 

Hornbeck, Magdalene, wife "f Nathaniel LeFevre. 427 

Hornbeck. Mary, wife of Jacob Hasbrouck 381, ^Sj 

Hornbeck, Mary. 2d wife of Dr. Jacob Wirtz 466 

Houghland, Maritje, wife of David Hasbrouck 372 

Hfjughtaling, Janetje, wife of Hendricus DuBois 311 

Houghtaling, Margaret, wife of Cornelius DuBois, Sr 309 

Houseman, Jane, wife of Rev. Wilhelmus Elting 497 

Howe, Lieut. - 338 

Hubble. Livelet 96 

Hue, James 96 

Huested, Capt. 337 

Hull, .Annie, da. of Nathaniel, wife of Lewis DuBois 345 

Hull. Nathaniel 345 

Huntington. Maj<ir 337 

Hurs. Robert 95 

Hurta, James 96 

Hussey, Ann, 2d wife of Jochen Hendrick Schoonmaker 499 

Hutchins. Capt. .Amos 330 

Hutchinson, Ebenezer, Surgeons .Mate 330, 342 

Huybertson, Lambert 14 

Hujiands, Lammert 282 

Hyms, Frederick 05. 265 

Indian F<irt 281 

the new 54 

village on the Wallkill 305 

lnterniarriagc> between French and Dutch settlers 44 

Irving, Washington 130 

Irwin, Margaret. 2d wife of Jacobus .\uchmoody 452 

Jackson. Lieut. Patten 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

Jacobson. Aert. son of Jacob Gerritson , 482 

Jansen, Abraham, m. Katrintje Bevier 244 

Jansen, Albert 14 

Jansen, Capt. Cornelius T 32S 

Jansen. Daniel, m. Catharine LeFevre 4i«; 

Jansen, Elizabeth, wife of Jacobus LeFevre 428 

Jansen, Hester, wife of Isaac Freer 360 

Jansen, Major Johannes. Jun 327 

Jansen. Margaret, da. of Daniel, wife of .\braham P. LeFevre. 431 

Jansen. Margaret, wife of Nathaniel LeFevre 420 

Jansen. Maria, wife of Dr. Mauritius (Maurice) Wirts 466 

Jenkins. Crines. m. Rachel Hardenbergh 97 

Jenkins. James, m. Rachel LeFevre 4_>7 

Jessup, Thomas K 260 

Jnchensen, Hendrick 14 



INDEX 575 

PAGE 

Joliiisun, Maria, wife of George Hasbrnuck 387 

Johnson, William, m. Catharine Hasbrouck 389 

Johnston, James, Quartermaster and Ensign 342 

Johnston (Johnson), Capt. John 331, 342 

Jorisse, Maddeleen, wife of Mathew Blanshan 507 

Keator, i\lr>. , da. of Montgomery lla.sl)rouck 374 

Kelsey, Julia, wife of Joseph Deyo 270 

Kelso. Jane, wife of Cornelius Hasbrouck 389 

Kelso. Rebecca, wife of Joseph Hasbrouck 389 

Ketlletas. Abram, son of Garret 423 

Kattletas. Kateltas, Kataltas, Garret 50, 62, 92, 423 

Kettletas, John, son of Garret 423 

Kettletas, Peter, son of Garret 423 

Kiersted. Christopher, m. Leah UuBois 311 

Knickerbocker, Catharine, wife of Jacob I. Hasbrouck, Jun 404 

Koleman. Peter 96 

Koole. Israel 96 

Kregier. Crieger, Capt.. expedition of. against Esopus Indians. .. .7, 281 

Kritsinger. Catrina, wife of John Deyo 279 

Krom. Jac'ib 265 



LaFayetle. Marquis de 394 

Lambertson. Gerrit 89, 91 

LaMontagne. W 13. 15 

Laraway Famil}- 358 

LaRue. Mary, wife of Samuel Budd 453 

LaToinelle, Esther 39 

LaToinelle, , godmother 38 

Lawrence, Lieut. .A^ndries T 325 

Lawson, Robert, m. Gertrude Budd 45.V4 

LeBlan (LeBIanc), Maria, wife of Louis Bevier. . . . 10. 39, 22^. 233. 509 

LeConte, Mar3\ wife of Christian Deyo 451 

LeConte, see deGrafF. 

Lee, Capt. ,W7 

Lee, Capt. Thomas 331 

LeFevre LeFever. Lefeber. Lesfabor 

LeFevre. Abram 62. loi 

LeFevre. Abraham, son of Isaac of Penna 408 

LeFevre. .Xbraham. son of Jean, son of Simon the Patentee. .50, 422, 431 

m. Maria Bevier 243. 430 

private Capt. Hoffman's Comp 41" 

LeFevre. Abram. son of Simon the Patentee 410 

Lesfover. Abraham, Overseer of the Poor. New Paltz 300 

LeFevre. .\hram A., son of .\bram N 428 

LeFevre. Abram N.. son of Nathaniel, m. Sarah, da. of Isaac 

LeFevre of Bontecoe 428. 442 

LeFevre. Abm. P.. son of Philip, m. i. Margaret Jansen 431 

2. Maria Kiting, widow of Dr. John Bogardus 491 

LeFevre. .\dam 410 

LeFevre. .Adam, son of Conrad 44') 

LeFevre. .\fiie. da. of Conrad, wife of Daniel Blanshan 449 

LeFevre. .\ndre .^00 



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PAOE 

LeFevre, Andre and Siniun, the first of the New Pallz Le- 

Fevres 407, 409 

LeFevre, Andre, the Patentee 10, 13, 15, 30, 508 

sells a house at Hurley 19, 41 1 

not married 441 

dies without issue 110 

LeFevre, Andries, son of Simon the Patentee. .30, 50, 75, 410, 414, 433 

ni. Cornelia Blanshan 415 

Lieutenant Capt. Hoffman's Co 417 

LeFevre, Andries 62, 92, 101, 353 

LeFevre, Andries, of Kettleboro, m. Rachel DuBois ^22 

LeFevre, Andries, called "Flagus," m. Magdalen LeFevre 430 

LeFevre. Lieut. Andries, of New Paltz Co., 1717 118 

LeFevre, Andries, son of Isaac 441 

LeFevre, Andries, son of Jean, son of Simon the Patentee. . .50, 418 

settles at Kettleboro 419, 422 

m. Rachel, da. of Nathaniel DuBois 424 

member of Prov. Congress 423 

LeFevre, Andries, son of Nathaniel 427, 428 

LeFevre, Andries, Jun., son of Simon, m. Magdalen LeFevre. . 418 

called "Uncle Flagus" 

LeFevre, Andries, Jun., son of Simon, son of Andre 417 

LeFevre, Andries A., son of Andries J 427 

m. Maria LeFevre 428 

LeFevre, Andries L, m. Maria Bevier 239 

LeFevre, Andries J., son of Johannes, m. Hannah DuBois.. .311, 427 

LeFevre, Andries P., son of Philip 431 

m. Magdalen Elting 432 

LeFevre, Andrew, son of Simon 421 

LeFevre, Andrew, m. Delia Ann Deyo 277 

LeFevre, Andrew & Co 89 

LeFevre, Ann, da. of Petrus 435 

LeFevre, Ann. da. of Capt. Simon, wife of Abm. DuBois 450 

LeFevre, Asa 423 

LeFevre, Ben of Ohio, grandson of John, of New Rochelle. . . 409 

LeFevre, Blandina, da. of Jacobus, wife of Roelif Elting 428 

LeFevre. Catharine 448 

LeFevre. Catharine, da. of Abraham, wife of Daniel DuBois. 303. 430 
LeFevre, Catharine, da. of Andries. wife of Wessel DuBois. ... 426 

LeFevre, Catharine, da. of Mathcw 420 

wife of Roelif S. Elting 421 

LeFevre, Catharine, da. of Nathaniel, wife of Daniel Jansen... 419 
LeFevre, Catharintje. da. of Andre, wife of Simon DuBois.. 299, 417 

LeFevre. C. Hornbeck. son of Nathaniel 427 

T^eFcvrc. Christopher, son r)f Jacob 435 

LeFevre. Cornelia, da. of Andries, wife of Solomon Elting 426. 492 

LeFevre, Cornelia, da. of Tohannes. wife of George Wurts 427 

LeFevre. Cornelia, da. of Closes 420 

LeFevre. Conrad, son of Mathew ; m. Swart 443 

LeFevre. Cornelius, son of Moses 420 

LeFevre. Cornelius, son of Petrus 4.15 

m. Maritje Van Wagenen 4.38 

LeFevre. Cornelius D., son of Andries J 427 

LeFevre. Cornelius D.. m. Gitty Elting 491 

LeFevre. Daniel 270 



INDEX S77 

PAGE 

LeFcvrc. Daniel, son of Isaac 99, 435, 440, 441, 447 

brother-in-law of Colonels Johannes Hardenbergh, Jun., 

and John Cantine 440 

m. Catharine Cantine 421, 435 

LeFevre, Daniel, son of Isaac of Penna 408 

LeFevre, Daniel, son of Jacobus, m. Ellen LeFevre 428 

LeFevre, Daniel, son of Peter, m. Mary Blanshan, widow of 

Abm. Hasbrouck 443 

LeFevre, DuBois, son of Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre, Egbert, son of Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre, Eliza, da. of Jacobus, wife of Deyo DuBois 428 

LeFevre, Eliza, da. of Simon, wife of Clinton Hasbrouck 421 

LeFevre. Elizabeth, da. of Andries of New Paltz, wife of Jona- 
than DuBois 318, 417 

LeFevre, Elizabeth, da. of Andries J., wife of Josiah P. Le- 
Fevre 427 

LeFevre. Elizabeth, da. of Andries of Kettleborough, wife of 

Zachariah Bruyn 426 

LeFevre, Elizabeth, da. of Daniel, wife of Mathew LeFevre. . 

419, 420, 421 

LeFevre, Elizabeth, da. of Moses 420 

LeFevre, Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Abraham Deyo 264 

LeFevre, Ellen, wife of Daniel LeFevre 428 

LeFevre. Garret, son of Jonathan 422 

LeFevre, Garret, son of Levi 449 

LeFevre. George, son of Simon 449 

LeFevre, Gertrude, da. of Abram N 428 

LeFevre, Gertrude, da. of Andries. wife of Philip Deyo .271, 426 

LeFevre, Gertrude, da. of Andries J., wife of Roelif DuBois. . . 427 

LeFevre. Gilbert, son of Daniel 44i 

LeFevre. Gitty. da. of Isaac 44^ 

wife of Dr. John Bogardus 442 

LeFevre. Gitty. da. of Mathew 420, 421 

LeFevre. Gitty. da. of Simon, ist wife of Jacob Elting 421 

LeFevre. Hippolytus. of Salem, N. J 407 

LeFevre. Isaac, of N. J 407 

LeFevre. Isaac, of Penna. m. Catharine Ferree and moves to 

Lancaster County. Penna 408 

LeFevre. Isaac 75. 92, 106, 309. 504 

LeF"evre. Isaac, m. Mary Freer 353. 4^5. 433 

LeFevre, Isaac, son of Isaac 435 

LeFevre, Isaac, son of Johannes, m. Mary LeFevre 426. 441, 447 

LeFevre. Major Isaac, son of Petrus, m. Catharine Burhans. . . 435 

LeFevre, Isaac, son of Simon the Patentee 37, 50. 58. 410, 414 

private Capt. HoflFman's Comp 417 

moves to Bontecoe 43.1 

wins foot race -^ 435 

LeFevre. Isaac, Jun.. son of Isaac, private Capt. Hoffman's Co. . . . 417 

LeFevre, Isaac C, son of Cornelius. 438 

LeFevre, Jacob, son of Petrus. m. Lydia Deyo j435 

LeFevre. Jacob, grandson of Tonathan 420 

LeFevre, Jacobus, son of Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Jansen 428 

LeFevre, James, the French preacher 10. 410 

LeFevre, Jame«. son nf Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre. Ian 02 



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PAGE 



LeFcvrc, Jane, wife of Daniel L. Dej-o 271 

LeFevre, Jane. da. of Petrus 435, 448 

LeFevre, Jane, wife of Samuel DuBois 303 

LeFevre, Jean (John), son of Simon the Patentee 

•.•••. 50. 410. 414- 418. 4^33 

soldier in Queen Anne's War 415. 422 

ni. Catharine Blanshan 415 

private in Capt. Hoflfman's Co 417 

LeFevre, Jean (John) 75, 106. 309 

LeFevre. J. Elting 427 

LeFevre, Johannes 264 

LeFevre, Johannes, of Kettleborough. son of Andries, m. Eliza- 
beth DuBois 319, 426, 427 

LeFevre, Johannes, son of Lsaac 99, 447 

ni. Sarah \'ernooy 435. 441 

LeFevre, Johannes, son of Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre, Johannes A., son of Andries J 427 

LeFevre, John, of New Rochelle, son of John of St. Domingo. 409 

LeFevre, John, of St. Domingo 409 

LeFevre. John (Jean), bond of, to brother-in-law, Daniel Du- 
Bois 423 

LeFevre, John, son of Abraham 430 

ni. Mary LeFevre 431 

LeFevre, John, son of Jonas, m. Nancy Ransom 428 

LeFevre, John, son of Nathaniel, m. Eglie Swart, widow of 

Capt. Simon LeFevre 419 

private in Revolution 420 

LeFevre, John, son of Simon, baptized 3iS 

LeFevre, John L, son of Isaac 441, 442 

LeFevre, John, M., son of Mathew 431 

LeFevre, John N., of Kettleborough. son of Noah, m. Sarah 

DuBois 31^ 431 

LeFevre, John P., son of Petrus 435 

m. Marj- Hardenburgh 438. 4.18 

LeFevre. Jonas, son of Nathaniel 428 

LeFevre. Jonas N.. son of Noah. m. i. Catharine Budd; 2. 

Jane Westbrook. widow of Luther Hasbrouck 431. 453 

LeFevre. Jonathan, m. Dinah Hasbrouck 37;^ 

LeFevre. Jonathan, son of Conrad 44O 

LeFevre. Jonathan J., son of Jonathan 422 

LeFevre. Jonathan J., son of Levi 449 

LeFevre. Jonathan, son of Mathew. m. Swart 448 

LeFevre. Jonathan, son of Nathaniel 419 

private in Revolution 420 

LeFevre. Jonathan, son of Nathaniel, m. Catharine Freer... 420. 422 

LeFevre. Josiah. m. Maria LeFevre 428 

LeFevre. Josiah. son of Abram N 428 

LeFevre. Josiah. son of John N 431 

LeFevre. Josiah P.. son of Peter 443, 493 

LeFevre, NTrs. Josiah P 425 

LeFevre. Josiah R.. son of Ralph 443 

LeFevre. T-evi, son of Jonathan, m. Newkirk 440 

I.eFevre, T.ewis, son of Jac<^bus, m. Christina Hornbeck 428 

LeFevre, Lewis, son of Nathaniel 428 

m. Rachel Bell 4.30 



IXDEX 579 



PAGE 



LcFcvre, Lorenzo, son of Adam 449 

T.eFevrc, Luther, son of Natlianiel 427 

LeFevre, xMagdalen, da. of Abraham, wife of Andries LeFevrc 

"Flagus" 430 

LeFevre, Magdalen, da. of Andre, wife of J(»hannes Bevier.. 

' 243, 245, 417 

LeFevre, ^Magdalen, da. of Mathew 420 

LeFevre, Magdalen, da. of Peter 493 

LeFevre, Magdalen, da. of Philip, wife of Malhusaleni Elting. 431 
LeFevre, ]\Iagdalen, da. of Simon, wife of Nathaniel J. Le- 
Fevre 421 

LeFevre, Magdalen, da. of Capt. Simon, wife of Solomon Has- 

brouck 373. 450 

LeFevre, Magdalen, wife of Andries LeFevre, Jun 418 

LeFevre, Margaret, da. of Abraham, ist wife of Abraham 

Bevier 236 

LeFevre, Margaret, da. of Abraham, wife of Vernooy. .. 430 

LeFevre. Margaret, da. of Jacobus, wife of Cornelius Wurts. . . 428 
LeFevre, Margaret, da. of Jean, son of Simon the Patentee, 

wife of Jacob Hoffman 418 

LeFevre, Margaret, da. of Nathaniel, wife of Daniel Deyo of 

Ireland Corners 266, 419 

LeFevre, Maria, da. of Abram N., wife of Andries A. LeFevre. 428 

LeFevre, ^laria, da. of Jacobus, wife of Josiah LeFevre 428 

LeFevre. Maria, da. of Philip, wife of Abraham \'an Orden. . . . 431 

LeFevre, Maria, da. of Simon, wife of C. Wynkoop 421 

LeFevre, Maria, wife of Daniel DuBois 50 

LeFevre. ^faritje. da. of Andre, wife of Nathaniel LeFevre. . . . 417 

LeFevre, ^Mary, da. of Andre, wife of Conrad \''ernoy 417 

LeFevre, Mary, da. of Andries. wife of Isaac LeFevre 426 

LeFevre, Mary, da. of Andries of Kettleboro, widow of Isaac 

LeFevre, wife of Capt. Abm. Deyo 264. 441 

LeFevre, ^lary, da. of Daniel, wife of Jonathan Deyo 270, 440 

LeFevre. Mary. da. of Isaac, wife of Col. Johannes Harden- 

burgh, Jun 435, 461 

Lel-'evri-. .Mary. da. <>f Jonathan, wife of Smith Ransom 422 

LeFevre, Mary, da. of Simon the Patentee, wife of Daniel Du- 
Bois 412 

LeFevre, Mary, wife of Jean LeFevre 431 

LeFevre. Mathew 50 

LeFevre. Mathew, son of Andre, son of Simon the Patentee 407 

m. Margaret Bevier 243. 448 

Lieut. Cantine's Regiment 448 

LeFevre, Mathew. son of John. m. Sarah LcFcvre 431 

LeFevre. Mathew. son of Moses 420 

LeFevre. Matlu \v. son of Nathaniel 100, 427 

m. Elizabeth LeFevre 419, 420, 421, 440 

Lieutenant in Revolution 419 

LeFevre, Mathew. son of Simon 421 

LeFevre. Mathew. son of Capt. Simon 450 

LeFevre.. .Mathew J., m. Sarah LeFevre 427 

LeFevre. Moses, son of Conrad 449 

LeFevre. Moses, son of Mathew. m. Margaret \'ernooy 420 

LeFevre. Moses, son of Simon 421 

LeFevre. Moses P.. son of Peter 303. 443, 493 



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PAGE 

LeFevre, Myndert, son of Isaac of N. J 407 

LeFevre, Nathan, son of Abraham 430 

LeFevre, Nathaniel 62, 100, 383, 485 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, m. cousin, Maritje LeFevre 417, 418 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Abram N 428 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Andries, m. Mary Deyo 426, 428 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Jan, son of Simon the Patentee. .422, 425 
LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Jean, private in Capt. Hoffman's 

Co 417 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Johannes, m. Magdalene Hornbcck 427 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Lewis, called "Sing" 430 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Mathew, m. Margaret Jansen 420 

LeFevre, Nathaniel, son of Simon 421 

LeFevre, Nathaniel J., m. Magdalen LeFevre 421 

LeFevre, Nellie, wife of Daniel A. Deyo 268 

LeFevre, Noah, son of Abraham 430 

m. Cornelia Bevier 245, 431 

LeFevre, Peter, son of Daniel of Bontecoe 440, 447, 463 

m. Magdalen Kiting 442, 493 

LeFever, Peter, of New Amsterdam 407 

LeFevre, Peter, son of Isaac 441 

LeFevre, Peter, son of Cornelius C 438 

LeFevre, Peter D., son of Daniel 303, 443 

LeFevre, Peter E., son of John of New Rochelle 409 

LeFevre, Peter R., son of Ralph 443 

LeFevre, Petronella, da. of Johannes, wife of Daniel A. Deyo. . 427 
LeFevre. Petrus, son of Isaac 99, 435. 437, 447 

m. Elizabeth Vernooy 435 

LeFevre, Philip 276 

LeFevre, Philip, of Kettleborough, son of Abraham 430 

m. Elsie DuBois 319. 431 

LeFevre, Philip, son of Isaac of Penna 408 

LeFevre, Philip, son of Simon 421 

LeFevre, Philip D., m. Elmira Deyo 277 

LeFevre, Rachel, da. of Abraham, wife of Johannes DuBois. . . 430 
LeFevre, Rachel, da. of Abram N., wife of Andrew Brodhead. . 428 
LeFevre, Rachel, da. of Andre, wife of Johannes Bevier of 

Wawarsing 235, 417 

LeFevre, Rachel, da. of Isaac 441 

wife of John Brodhead 442 

LeFevre, Rachel, da. of Jacobus, wife of William Deyo 428 

LeFevre, Rachel, da. of Johannes, wife of James Jenkins 427 

LeFevre, Ralph, son of Peter, m. Rachel Elting 443, 491 

LeFevre, Samuel, son of Abraham 430 

LeFevre, Samuel, son of Mathew, m. Swart 448 

LeFevre, Samuel, son of Capt. Simon 450 

LeFevre, Samuel, widow of. marries John LeFevre 449 

LeFevre, Samuel T., of Iowa 408 

LeFevre. Sarah, da. of Andries, wife of Samuel Bevier. .235, 236, 417 
LeFevre, Sarah, da. of Andries of Kettleborough, wife of Jo- 

siah R. Kiting 426, 491 

LeFevre, Sarah, da. of Isaac of Boptecoe, wife of Abram N. 

LeFevre 428. 442 

LeFevre, Sarah, da. of Johannes, wife of Mathew J. LeFevre.. 427 
LeFevre. Sarah M.. da. of Nathaniel, wife of Joseph Hasbrouck 427 



INDEX 581 



PACiE 



LeFevre, Sarah, da. of Peter, wife of Elias Bevicr 247 248 

LeFevre, Sarah, da. of Pctrus 4^ 

LeFevre, Sarah, da. of Philip 411 

LeFevre, Sarah, wife of Andries DuBois 7iq 

LeFevre, Sarah, wife of Mathcw LeFevre 4-Ji 

LeFevre, Seven Sisters jj- 

LeFevre Siniori, the Patentee. . .lo", iV.'is.' 30.' 50" Ve, 58, 236,' 271, 508 

m. Elizabeth Deyo .11, 410 

sells a house at Hurley ........! '. '. .19,' 411 

widow of, marries Moses Cantine ' 411 

settlement of estate of ...'."...'.'.. " 412 

LeFevre. Simon, son of Andre, private in Capt. HofFman's Co. • 

m. Petronella Hasbrouck ' 417 

LeFevre, Simon, son of Mathew, m. Swart. ...... ... . . 448 

Captain in Revolution ^n 

LeFevre, Capt. Simon, widow of, marries John LeFevre 419 

LeFevre, Simon, son of Mathew 420 

m. Elizabeth Deyo: Captain in 1812 421 

LeFevre, Simon, son of Samuel, m. Hendricks . 449 

LeFevre. "Sing" 267, 4^0 

LeFevre, Solomon 273 

LeFevre, Solomon, son of Abraham 430 

LeFevre, Solomon P., son of Philip \ 431 

m. I, Sarah Deyo; 2, Jane Elting 432 

LeFevre, Tjerck. son of Jacob 437 

LeFevre. Washington, son of Cornelius 438 

LeFevre, Zebedee 4-8 

LeFevre. , da. of Petrus, wife of Samuel DuBois ... 438 

LeF-vre, . da. of Pctrus, wife of Elias Bevicr 438 

LeFevre. ^ — , da. of Petrus, wife of Charles Hardenburgh. . 438 

LeFevre, various French families of. settled in America 407 

LeFevres of Bloomingdale 448 

LeFevres of Bontecoe 432 

LeFevres. of Kettleborough 422, 432 

Leggett TLcnt). Ensign Abm.. taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

Leman. Adelia. da. of Henry E 346 

Leman, Henry E.. of Lancaster, Pa., m. Anna DuBois 346 

Leman. Henry E.. son of Henry E 346 

Leman. James C, son of Henry E 346 

Leman, T>cwis D., son of Henry E 346 

Leman, Samuel W.. son of Henry E 346 

Lent, Ensign .\braham 331 

LeRoy, Francis, son of Simeon 3:58 

LeRoy. Joanna, wife of Dennis Rclyea "502 

LeRoy. Leonard, son of Simeon 3^8 

LeRoy, Marie .\nn. wife of Hugo Freer, 2d or Sr 39, 356 

LeRoy, Philip, m. Julia Deyo .' 277 

LeRoj'. Simeon 357 

LeSacur. Jane, wife of William Elting 4S2 

Lester. Murry 06 

T-ivingston. Gil 315 

Livingston. J. Gil 64 

Lnckwood, Charles, son of Daniel 346 

Lockwood. Daniel, son of Daniel 346 

T.ockwood. Daniel, m. ^^arga^et DuBoj^ 346 



582 JXDEX 

PAGE 

Lockwood, Deborah, wife of David Bcvicr 252 

Lockwood. Ely T., son of Daniel 346 

Lockwood, Lew is D., son of Daniel 346 

Lockwood, Nathaniel D., son of Daniel 347 

Lockwood, Rachel, da. of Daniel 346 

Logan, Major Samuel 330 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

Loiinsberry, Hester, wife of Johannes Freer 363 

Louis, Johanna, widow of Peter Van Bome, 2d wife of Abra- 
ham Freer. Jun 364 

Low, Abraham, son of Peter Cornelius 468 

Low, Antjc, widow of John Van Gasbcck, m. Isaac Hasbrouck 381 

Low, Antje, wife of Simeon Dej-o 269 

Low, Cornelia, da. of Cornelius 344 

Low, Cornelius, son of Peter Cornelius 468 

Low, Cornelius, m. Rachel Low 344 

Low, David, son of Simeon 409 

Low, Ezekiel, son of Simeon 469 

Low, Isaac, son of Peter, son of Mathew 468 

Low, Jacob, son of Johannis M 469 

Low. Jacob, son of Peter Cornelius 460 

Low, Jacob, son of Simeon 469 

Low. Janitje, da. of Simeon 469 

Low, Johannis 351 

Low, Johannes, son of Johannes M 469 

Low, Johannis, son of Peter Cornelius 468 

Low, Johannes M. or Jun.. son of Mathew 95. 100. 353 

m. Rebecca Freer 469 

Low, Jonathan, son of Peter, son of Mathew 468 

Low, Judith, wife of Jonathan Bevier 248 

Low, Lena, da. of Johannes M 469 

Low, Maria.- da. of Johannes M., wife of Roelif J. Elting. . . .469. 487 

Low. Maria, da. of Simeon 469 

Low. Mathew. son of Peter Cornelius, ni. Jannetjo \'an Har- 

ring 468 

Low, Peter 9- 

Low, Peter, son of Mathew, m. Catherine DuBois 307. 468 

Low. Peter, son of Peter Cornelius 468 

Low, Peter Cornelius, from Holstein. m. Elizabeth Blanshan 468 

Low. Petrus 94 

Low, Petrus, Surveyor of Highways .300 

Low, Samuel, son of Simeon 469 

Low, Sarah, da. of Simeon, wife of Petrus ^'an Wagcnen 479 

Low, Simeon, son of Johannes M., m. Christina McMuUen 469 

Low, Solomon 94 

son of Peter, son of Mathew 468 

Low, Trintje. wife of. i, Philip Bevier: 2, .^driance Newkirk. ..243, 244 

Ludlum. Judge G. W.. m. Cathaiine Hasbrouck 384 

Lyon, Halsey, m. Catharine .\nn Hasbrouck 389 

Lyon, Louise, wife of Benjamin C. Hasbrook .389 

Mackey, Alexander 96 

Markle, Cornelia, wife of Lucas \'an Wagenen 480 

Masten. Ezekiel. m. Janet Ronk 501 

Mattyse. Jan 13 



IXDLX 583 

Maly, Johannes, Jun 106 

McArthur, Lieut. Alexander 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

McClaughry. Ensign John 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

McDonald, William, of Wawarsing, m. Mary DuBois 311 

McDonald, , da. of William, wife of John Hasbronck. . . . 375 

McKinnej', Arthur 123 

McKinstry, David, m. Abagail Bevier 240 

McKinstry, Mrs. F. S 421 

McMullen, Christina, wife of Simeon Low 469 

Meckel. Hagar 38 

jNIemorial House at New Paliz 50. 311 

See New Paltz. 

Meyer. Rev. John H 1 56 

Meynema, Rev. D. B 145 

Miller. Mrs. Peter, da. of Edward Wait 393 

Mitchell. Ambrose, m. Maria Bevier 247 

Mitchell. James, ni. a da. of Lucas Van Wagenen 480 

Moncrief, Major Thomas, Royal .\rmy, exchanged for Major 

Zach. DuBois 334. 335 

Monion, Richard gd 

Montanye, Catharine, wife of Jean Bevier 226. 233, 234 

Montgomer}% General 3^5 

Morris, Arthur, m. Elizabeth Bevier 236 

Morton, Levi P 482 

Mott, Lieut. Ebenezer 33^ 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

Moulinars. Rev. J.J I43 

Muller. Simon, m. Lena Bevier 240 

Mver. Rev. Herman, m. Rachel Hardenbergh 401 

Myer. \\\ D -282 

Nap. Moses 96 

Nees. John 265 

Newburgh. ^^^lshington's headquarters at i 

Newkirk. Adriancc. m. Trintje Low, widow of Philip Bevier. . . -'43 

Newkirk. Gerrit. m. Maria Bevier. -48 

Newkirk. Mathew. m. Cornelia Bevier 236 

Newman, Delia, wife of Isaac Hasbrouck .189 

New Paltz. Indian deed for ^- 

New Paltz Patent n. 

New Paltz Patent, boundaries of 63. 31O 

New Paltz. Mem<irial House at 28. 99, 362, 402. 421, 465 

New Paltz, names of Patentees of '5. 5io 

New Paltz, coat of arms of, people "9 

New Paltz. Patentees of. want more land 21 

New Paltz. Patentees of, houses of ^' ^ 

New Paltz, Dutch families in 467 

New Paltz people and Indians 78 

New Paltz Huguenot Memorial Society... .^07. 397. 402 

New Paltz. ferry at. acro.ss the Wallkill '"7 

built by subscription '-7 

lists of subscribers '-"^ 

New Paltz, division of the Patent of . . "O 



S84 INDEX 

PAGE 

New Paltz, territory annexed to Precinct of 107 

New Paltz, agreement for the defense of title 103 

New Paltz, mills in and about 115, 116 

New Paltz, the Dusine of 69 

New Paltz. ordinances 66 

New Paltz, election of officers 299-300 

New Paltz, men of. as count}- and provincial officers 160 

New Paltz, matters submitted to vote in 112 

New Paltz, papers relating to, in County Clerk's Office 160 

New Paltz, taxes in 89, 92, 94, 108 

New Paltz, training of militia 131 

New Paltz in the Revolution 122, 167. 171. 178-190 

list of inhabitants of, in 1765 94 

in 1775 •.•••: 168 

farms and farming in 190-198 

towns in, precinct of 199-215 

New Paltz Church, called the Walloon; the first built of logs.... 134 

first stone church 9, 139 

second stone church 152 

a brick church 138 

New Paltz. church at, French records of 2>7 

See Church. 

New Paltz, church of, faithful to the Coetus 148 

New Paltz, minister.s of the church at 136-159 

New Paltz, schoolmasters in 216 

Nicholson. Col. John 327 

Nickel, .^gatha. wife of Pierre Deyo 10, 253 

Northrop. Willct S.. m. Magdalen DuBois Bevier 251 

Nottingham. Stephen. Capt. 1758 119 

Nottingham. Susan, wife of Cornelius Bevier 238 

Nottingham. W 294. 414. 481 

Noyes. Oscar, m. Mary Dej'o 269 

Occum. Rev. Samson 345 

Oliver. Mathew. m. Jane Elting 407 

Ostrandcr. Jacob, m. Maria DuBois 321 

Ostrandcr, Johannes 501 

Ostrandcr, Lana. wife of David Rclj'ca 3d 503 

Ostrandcr, Peter, m. Christina Ronk 501 

Ostrandcr, Peter, m. Dehora Deyo 275, 516 

Ostr.Tnder. Thomas, m. ^Taria Hasbrouck 387 

Parniitcr. Michael 96 

Parkus, Ebcnezcr 96 

Parkus, \'alentine 96 

Pawling. Capt. Albert 328 

Pawling. T.icut. Henry 33^ 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery 332 

Peartree. Col. William 470 

Pendleton. T.icut. Samuel Solomon 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery ,332 

Pcrrine. .\nn. wife of Abraham k. P.cvier 238 

Perry. Capt. RLi. m. Margaret Hasbrouck 389 

Peters, Dr. William, m. Margaret Hasbrouck 404 



INDEX 585 



PAGE 



Petilon, Mary 37 

wife of Abraham Rutaii 3o 

Philippsc, Adolpli -470 

Piercy, Lieut. Jonathan 3-" 



resigns 



3-'9 



Piersi>n. Dr. William, m. Jane DuBois 3'i 

Piatt. Richard 3^7 

Captain 32o 

resigns ^■^^ 

Plum, Dr., m. Anna Ronk 30i 

Pontinear, Henry -2^ 

Pontinear Lewis 9" 

Post, Arien 4o-2 

Poyer, , wife of Simon DuBois 30i 

Pratt, Alden J., m. Caroline Deyo, widow of Dewitt Ransom... 277 

Pratt, Frances E., wife of Luther Deyo 277 

Pratt, George W -77 

Preevost, John 30i 

Presslar. Johannis ^ 

Public highway, the first from New Paltz 02 

Putnam, General, letters from 335 

Ransom, Dewill. m. Caroline Dey^ • • • 277 

Ransom. Miss, schoolteacher, m. 1 lenry G. DuBois 218 

Ransom, Nancy, wife of John LcFevre 42» 

Ransom, Phclick 9o 

Ransom, Smith, m. Mary LeFevre 422 

Ray, Eliza, wife of Joseph O. Hasbrouck 3«7 

Reese, Christopher, m. ^Laria Hasbrouck 40i 

Reeve, Dr. Lsaac, m. Elizabeth DuBois 3ii 

Reille'(Relyea). Dennis • • • • • ' ' ^I 

Relyea (Relje). Benjamin, m. Melissa DuBois 301 

Relyca (Relje), Claudina. da. of Dennis 503 

Relyea, David, son of Dennis 3^3 

Relvea, David, 2d, son of Dennis 2 503 

Relyea, David, 3d, m. Lana Ostrander 50^ 

Relyea, Dennis, soldier in Revolution -2°3 

Relyea, Dennis, m. Joanna LcRoy. 302 

Relyea. Dennis, 2d, m. NLarytje Van \'loit .W 

Relyea. Hester, da. of Dennis 3^3 

Relyca. Tohn, soldier in Revolution ^^^ 

Relyea, Peter, soldier in Revolution 50.? 

Relyea. Simeon, soldier in Revolution 503 

Rice, Gilbert C, sch<iolmaster -''" 

Rich, Peter, m. Margaret Ronk.^ . 50i 

Roc Marv E., wife of William L. Hasbrouck 3^ 

Roe, William ■ ■ -f^ 

Rohrer. DuBois, son of Reuben H 34" 

Rohrer. Leland, son of Reuben H 3J'' 

Rohrer, Mifflin, son of Reuben H ; • • ■ • • • • ■ •• ■ • 34" 

Rohrer Reuben H., of Lancaster, Pa., m. Clementine Williams 

DuBois --17 

Rohrer. Reuben S., son of Reuben H 34'^ 

Romp, Sergt 

Ronk, de Ranke 

38 



586 INDEX 

PACE 

Ronk, A. M.. son of John George, son of Laurents 502 

Ronk, Mrs. A. M., granddaughter of Joseph I. Hasbrouck 386 

Ronk, Anna. da. of John George, wife of Dr. Plum 501 

Ronk, Christina, da. of John George, wife of Peter Ostrander 501 

Ronk, Cornehus, son of John George, private 4th Ulster County 

Regiment 501 

Ronk, Janet, da. of John George, wife of Ezckiel Masten 501 

Ronk, John, son of John George, m. Sinsabagh ; soldier in 

Revolution 501 

Dc Ronk. John George 266 

m. Clara Battie 500 

Ronk, John George, son of Laurents 501 

Ronk. Laurents, son of John George 501 

Ronk. Margaret, da. f)f John George, wife of Peter Rich 501 

Ronk. Philip, son of John George, soldier in Revolution 501 

Ronk, Stephen, m. Eliza Hasbrouck 3^ 

Rf los, Hyinan 282 

Roos, Jan 282 

Roos, Nathaniel, m. Maria Jane Hasbrouck 389 

Roosa, Elizabeth, wife of Conrad Bevier 237 

Roosa. Engeltje. wife of Cornelius B. Schoonniaker 4<)c) 

Roosa. Geesje. wife of Jan Ean 476 

Roosa. Lyinan Albertson 19, 41 1 

Roosa, Leah, wife of Benjamin Bevier 238, 242 

Roosa, Marytje. da. of Nicholas, ist wife of Abraham Hardcnbergh 456 

Roosa, Nicholas 9- 

Rosa, Abraham, Overseer of the Poor, New Paltz 300 

Rose, Daniel 370, 37-^ 

Rose, Jacob, m. Catharine Hasbrouck 373 

Rose, Jacobus, m. Mary DuBois 300 

Rose, Lieut. Jacobus, a Tory 122 

Rose, Peter, m. Hasbrouck 37-2 

Rosecrans, Capt. Jacobus or James 330. 342 

Rutan, Rutemps, Abraham 37. ^8 

Rutan, David, son of Abraham 38. 39 

Rutan, Esther, da. of Abm 39 

dies 40 

Rutan, Paul, son of Abm 38 

Rutan, Peter, son of Abm 40 

Rutscn, Jacob ^^^, 504 

Rutsen, Col. Jacob 92 

Rutzen, Catharine, da. of Jacob, wife of Johannes Hardenbergh 4.^6 

Rutzcn, John, Capt. of troop in 1715 117 

Savage, Capt. 3.^7 

Sawtell. Luther, m. Catharine Bevier 247 

Sax. Michael, m. Johanna Bevier 227 

Saxton. , w ife of Livingston Deyo 278 

Scharp. Catharine, wife of Philip Freer 364 

Schcnck, Elsie, wife of Dr. Stephen Hasbrouck 387 

Schepmoes. Dirck '4. 284 

Schepmoes. Jeapic. wife of Gerrit Jans Hardenbergh 453 

Schepmoes. Capt. Johannes 117 

Schoolmasters, French, at New Paltz 25 

Schoonmaker, Abram, son of Abram . 500 

Schoonniaker, Abraham, son of Cornelius 500 



INDEX 587 



PACE 



Schoonmakcr, Abraliam, son of Isaac, ni. Rachel Deyo 5<x) 

Schoonnmker, Adjutant Abraham 327 

Scliooiiniakcr, Abm. P., m. a da. of Jonas Freer 2d 363 

Schoonmakcr, ArnaiUje, ist wife of Jacob I. Schoonmakcr '500 

Schoonmakcr, Cornelia, wife of Joseph I. Hasbrouck 386 

Schoonmakcr, Cornelius, son of Abram 500 

Schoonmakcr, Cornelius B., son of Jochem Hendrick, m. iingcllje 

Roosa 4Qg 

Schoonmakcr, Cornelius C, son of Cornelius 500 

Schoonmakcr, Cornelius, son of Cornelius B., m. Arriantje Jlorn- 

beck 499 

Schoonmakcr. David, son of Abram 500 

Schoonmakcr, Elidia, wife of Benjamin Hasbrouck 381, 389 

Schoonmakcr, Elsje, wife of Joseph Hasbrouck 369, 375, 380 

Schoonmakcr, Elihu, son of Jacob 1 500 

Schoonmakcr, Mrs. Elihu, da. of Samuel Hasbrouck 7)7} 

Schoonmakcr, Evert 279 

Schoonmakcr, George, son of Abram 500 

Schoonmakcr, Harriet, da. of Isaac, wife of Goetcheous. . . . 500 

Schoonmakcr, Hendrick Jochenson, m. Elsie Van Breestede 499 

Lieutenant W. I. Co 499 

Schoonmakcr. Sergt. Henry, "missing"' at Fort Montgomery t,i,2 

Schoonmakcr, Isaac, son of Cornelius, m. Sarah DuBois 500 

Schoonmakcr, Jacob I., son of Isaac, m. i. Arriantje Schoon- 
makcr ; 2, Ann Baird 500 

Schoonmakcr. Jochem Hendrick, son of Hendrick Jochenson, m. 

I, Petronclla Slcght ; 2, Ann Hussey 499 

Schoonmakcr, John A., son of Abram 500 

Schoonmakcr, Lucas E 403 

Schoonmakcr, Margaret, wife of Daniel Hasbrouck 371 

Schoonmakcr, Mathusalem, son of Isaac 500 

Schoonmakcr, Pctrus 95 

Schoonmakcr, Philip, m. a da. of Jonas Freer 2d 363 

Schoonmakcr, Policy, da. of Isaac, wife of Tjerck De Witt 500 

Schoonmakcr, Samuel 95 

Schoonmakcr, Selah, son of Abram 500 

Schuncman, Rev. Johannes 145 

Sergeant, Robert 96 

Sergeant, William 265 

Seven Sisters, the 417 

Sharpe. Gen. George H.. son of Henry 384 

Sharpe. Henry, m. Helena Hasbrouck 384 

Shaver. Martha J., wife of .\ndrew Bevier 241 

Shultz, Charles, m. Elizabeth Bevier, widow of Mo.ses Bevier 242 

Sinsabagh, , wife of John Ronk 501 

Slaves, owners of 299. 370, 457. 470 

list of 93 

fSlccht, Slcght, Sleight.) 

Slecht, Antho 106 

Slecht, Cornelius 481 

m. Tryntje Tynebrouck 482 

Sleight, Hend 106 

Sleight. Ensign Jacobus 331 

Sleght, Jacomcynt j e : 13 

Slecht, Jacomyntje, da. of Cornelius, wife of Jan Elten. . 482 



SBS INDEX 

PACE 

SIcclit. Jan io6 

Sleclu. Mattys 92, 282, 353 

SIccht, Mattys, Jun 75, 474 

Sleghl. Mattys C.. m. Maria Maddalctn Crispt-Il 474 

SIcglit. Pctronclla. 1st wife of Joclicm Schoonmakcr 499 

Slciglit, Rachel, wife of Abraham Hashrouck. Jun 372 

Slouter, Woiiter. a Tory 122 

Shiyter, Benjamin 265 

Smedes, Catharine, wife of Charles Hardcnhergh 460 

Sinedes, Catliarine Ann, 2d wife of Hiram Budd 453 

Smedes, Catrina, wife of Benjamin I. Hasbrouck 404 

Smedes, Peter, m. Elsie Hasbrouck 370 

Smeedes. Gertrude, wife of Lewis Bevier 243 

Smith. Elizabeth. 1st wife of Jacobus Auchnioody 452 

Smith. Hannah, ist wife of John Bevier 246 

Smith, Hendrick 503 

Smith. Henry, son of William 2d 504 

Smith. Capt. Israel, m. Mary Hasbrouck 392 

Smith, Ruth, wife of Deyo 269 

Smith. William, 1st 503 

soldier in Revolution 504 

Smith, William, 2d 503 

Smith, William, 3d. son of Henry 504 

Smith, Wyntje, wife of Jeremiah Bevier 248 

Snyder, Capt. Jacob L., m. a da. of Calvin Hasbrouck 387-8 

Snyder, John A., ni. Jenneke Bevier 242 

Soldiers in Colonial times 117 

in War of Independence. .172-177, 265, 312, 321, 322, 325, 350. 359, 430 

in War of 1812 350 

Sprague, G. I.. Provincial Secretary 379 

Spraguc. Josiah 271 

Spratt, Johannes 265 

Steen, Mathew 404 

Steward, Asa, m. Mary DuBois 344 

Steward, Elizabeth, da. of Asa 344 

Steward. Margaret, da. of Asa 344 

Stewart. Capt. James 330, 342 

Stewart, Capt, , 9th Regiment Royal Army 338 

Stilwell, Samuel B 49- 62, 316 

Stilwell, Stephen, m. Catharine Bevier 250 

Stokhard, Catharine, wife of Jonas Freer 358, 361 

Stokhard. Clarissa, wife of Moses Deyo 259, 516 

Stover, George 95 

Sullivan's Expedition 342 

Suylant. Catharine, wife of Benjamin DuBois 307 

Swart. Eglic, widow of Capt. Simon LcEevre, wife of John Le- 

Fevre ' 419 

Swartout. Ensign Henry 331 

taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery ;^;^2 

Tappen, Jregan 315 

Taylor, Daniel, a British spy, arrested 336 

court martial to try :}^7 

condemned 3.18 

hung 339 



INDEX 589 

PAGE 

Taylor, E. J 261 

Tears, Jacob 50i 

Teachout, Elizabeth, wife of Johannes Bcvier 240 

Tebenin. Jean, the schoolmaster 25, 60, 143 

Temple, Mrs. Henry A 230 

Ten Broeck, Johannes, Capt. Ulster County Co., 1738 1 1« 

Ten Broeck. Wesscl 14. 2«2 

Captain in 171 1 .117, 4-22 

Ten Evck, Catharine, da. of Richard, wife of Benjamm Rosa Be- 

vier 240 

Ter Boss, Hendrick. m. Rachel Freer 353 

Terpenning, John 75, 89. 91 - 92, 106 

ni. Esther Freer 353 

Terw illiger, Aurt 265 

Terwilliger, Elidia, wife of Deyo 200 

Tervvilliger, Elizabeth, wife of Peter Bevier 241 

Terwilliger, Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Freer 359 

Terwilliger, Terwellego, Evert, Assessor of New Paltz 300 

Tervvilliger. Evert, m. Sarah Freer 353 

Terwilliger, Evert, Jun 3I9 

Terwilliger, John 94 

Terwilliger, John, Jun 205 

Terwilliger, Jonathan 95. loi 

Terwilliger, Joseph 95- 101 

Terwilliger. Josiah, Jun 20^ 

Tennisson. Arent 284 

Thomas, Pattv, wife of Elijah Deyo 270 

Thorn, Charlotte, wife of Jacoli Hasbrouck .389 

Thorn. Jane, wife of Lewis DuBois 5th 345 

Titesorte, Haignies (PAgnes) and Abram Frere married 41. 3^3 

Titesorte, Elizabeth 4i 

Titus, John, m. Sarah Hasbrouck 3»9 

Tooker, Ellen, wife of Harvey Deyo 278 

Townsend. Nathan 30i 

Townsend. Samuel, Paymaster ;■•■•••■■•,•••■,• ^'^ 

Traphagan. Rachel Ann, wife of John Hasbrouck - 3»9 

Tschirkey, Oscar 278, 493 

Turtle, James „,9t> 

Tuthill. Daniel, m. Sarah B. Hasbrouck 3of>-7 

Twelve men. the, sec the Dusine. 

Van Aken. Annitje. wife of Jacob Freer 365 

Van Aken. Marynus 95 

m. Margaret Deyo S''' 

Van Benschoten. Lieut. Ellas 3-^ 

Captain ::■■■■■•■■.•■-■.■ .•. ^.f. 

Van Benthuyscn, Catrina. wife of Antome Cnspcll .-,24 

Van Bergh. Dinah, widow of Rev. John Frchnghnysen, wife ot 

Jacob Rutze Hardenbergh • • • ■ • 4^ 

\'an Borne, Peter, Johanna Louis, widow of. ni. Abraham hrccr. 

T„n 3"4 

Van Brecstede. Elsie, da. of Jan Janscn, ist wife of Hendnck Jo- 

chensen Schoonmakcr ; "A" ' : ^'^ 

Van Bumble, Helen, wife of Ezekiel Bcyier. 248 

Van Bumnul. Margaret, wife of Hendricus Deyo 2/3. 515 



590 INDEX 

PACE 

Van Buren, President Martin 130 

Van Cortlandt. Philip, Col. 2d N. V 343 

Van Dam, Rip 470 

Vandcniark. Abraham . 95, 100 

Vandcmark, August 92 

Vandcmark, Pctrus 96 

Vandcrbilt. Abagail, 2d wife of A]>raliam Bevier 237 

\'an der liurgh, \'an den Burgli, \'an de Bergh 

\'an der Burgh. Barthal. Ensign 342 

Van den Burg. Lieut. Henry 328, 331 

Van der Burgli, Henry, Ensign 342 

Van den Burgli. Ensign Henry J 331 

Van der Burgh. Henry W., Lieut 342 

Van der Merkan, Abraham 106 

Van Driesscn, Rev. Johannes T41 

Van Dyck, Catharine, da. of Lawrence C. Van Dyck, wife of Louis 

Bevier 25 1 -2 

Van Dyck, Cornelius L., m. Maria Bevier 251 

Van Dyck. Peter, m. Elizabeth Bevier 252 

\'an Gasbeck, John, widow of, m. Isaac Hasbrouck 381 

Van Harring. Jaimetje, wife of Mathew Low 468 

Van Keuren, Elizabeth, da. of Tjerck Matthysen, wife of Benjamin 

Bevier 236, 238 

Van Keuren, Garret je, wife of Lewis Bevier 238 

Van Keuren, Mathys 106 

Van Kleeck. Michael, m. Dinah Freer 353 

Van Kleeck, . wife of Lucas Deyo 276 

Van Kuykendale. Maryanette, wife of William Freer 363 

Van Leuven, Peter 230 

Yzn Metten. Rebecca, wife of Cornelius Elting 482 

Van Niest. Rev. Rcgnier 385 

Van Olinda, Rev. Douw 158 

Van Orden, Abraham, m. Maria LeFevre 431 

Van Orden, C. L 321 

Van Orden, Solomon 430 

Van Schaick. , Col. i st N. Y 343 

Van Vleck. Margaret, wife of Louis I. Hasbrouck 404 

Van VIeit, Elizabeth Gonzalez, 2d wife of Johannes Bevier 235 

Van Vleit. Marytje, wife of Dennis Rclyea 2d 503 

Van Vliet, Debora. wife of ChristofTel Deyo 275, 516 

Van Vliet, Elizabeth, wife of Gerritt Freer 365 

Van Vliet, Gertje, wife of Gerrit Freer, son of Jacob 365 

Van Vliet, Jenneke, wife of Benjamin Deyo 516 

Van Vliet, Tunis 123 

Van Volgen, Tennis Clausen, of Schenectady, m. Sarah Freer. . .352, 527 

Van Wagen. Aritje, wife of Jacob Freer 364 

See Van Weyen. 

Van Wagencn, Aart 358 

Van Wagenen, Abraham 95 

Van Wagenen, Aert (Archa) P., son of Petrus, m. Maria Freer, 

da. of Jonas 363, 480 

soldier in 1812 480 

Van Wagenen, Alexander, son ot Archa P 480 

Van Wagenen. Archa, of Wagondahl 479 

Van Wagenen, Benjamin, m. Catherine, da. of Jonathan DuBois..32i, 480 



INDEX 591 



Van Wagencii, Catharine, wife of Abraham Ean 477 

Van Wagcnen, Catharine, da. of Petrus 480 

Van Wagcnen, Daniel, son of Petrus, soldier in Revolution 480 

Van Wagcnen, Ezekiel, son of Petrus 480 

Van Wagcnen, Lieut. Garret 328 

resigns 329 

\'an Wagcnen, George 3I5 

\'an Wagcnen, Hannah, wife of Dr. Cornelius D. Hasbrouck 403 

Van Wagcnen, Isaac, ni. Sarah Deyo 5^7 

\'an Wagcnen, Janctje, da. of Lucas 480 

\^-in Wagcnen, Jonas, son of Archa P 480 

Van Wagcnen, Jonathan 265 

Van Wagcnen, Jonathan, son of Lucas 480 

Ya.i\ Wagcnen, Jonathan, son of Petrus 480 

Van Wagcnen, Levi, son of Petrus. soldier in Revolution 480 

Van Wagcnen, Lucas, son of Petrus. m. Cornelia Markle 480 

Van Wagcnen, Magdalen, da. of Archa P.. wife of Jacob Bedford.. 480 

Van Wagcnen, Maria, da. of Lucas 480 

Van Wagencn, Maria, da. of Petrus 480 

Van Wagcnen, INLiria. wife of Samuel Bevicr 241 

Van Wagencn, Maritjc, wife of Cornelius LcFevre 438 

Van Wagcnen, Petrus • • • -95. loi 

^^^n Wagencn. Petrus, son of Archa. m. Sarah Low; soldier in 

Revolution 479 

\'an Wagcnen, Rebecca, wife of Henry (Hendricus) DuBois 313 

Van Wagencn. Rebecca, wife of Jean Freer 365, S^7 

Van Wagencn, Sarah, da. of Petrus 480 

Van Wagcnen, Sarah, wife of Johannes Deyo 275 

Van Wagcnen, Sarah, wife of Solomon Hasbrouck 369 

Van Wagencn, Simon, m. Sarah DuBois 307 

Van Wagonen. Isaac, ni. Catharine Freer 353 

Van Wagoner. Gcprge 483 

Van Wegener fainily, descent of 482 

Van Weve. Ilendrick 89. 91 

Van Weven (Wagen). Aritje. wife of Jacob Freer 527 

\'an Winkle. Cornelius, m. Maria Elting 497 

Vas. Rev. Peter 4' 5 

Vernooy. Anna, wife of Jacob Bevicr 235, 236 

Vernoy^ Conrad, m. Mary LcFevre 4^7 

Vernoy, Cornelia, 2d wife of Johannes Bevicr 237 

Vernooy, Cornelius, m. Cornelia DuBois 318 

Vcrnoov, Cornelius G.. m. Maria Bevicr 236 

Vernooy, Elizabeth, wife of Petrus LcFevre 435. 447 

Vcrnoov. Ilendrick 47^ 

Vernooy. Jennikc. wife of .Vbraham J. Bevicr 238, 242 

Vernoov, Margaret, wife of Moses LcFevre 420 

Vcrnoov, Rachel, wife of .'Xbraham Bevicr 226, 23^, 235 

Vernooy, Sarah, wife of Conrad Bevicr 240 

X'crnooy. Sarah, wife of Johannes LcFevre 435. 447 

Vernoov. widow Sarah, 3d wife of .\braham Bevicr 2i7 

Vernooy, , m. Margaret LeFevre 4.^0 

Vcrnoov. . Capt ii7 

Vielc. Lewis, of Schenectady, m. Mary Freer 352, 527 

Vilar.' Jane 39 

Viltfil, Daniel, son of Richard 43 



592 INDEX 

PACE 

Viltfil, Richard, and wife Madalinc Chut 42 

V'iltfil, , child of Richard and wife Madclin Cluit. baptized.. 41 

Vroonian, Rev. B 142 

Wait. Edward, ni. Betsey Hasbrouck 392 

Waldron, Catharine, wife of Lewis Hardcnbergli 460 

Wall, Thomas, of Somerset Co., N. J., m. Grictjc Eking 482 

Walters. Nathaniel 265 

Wamboon. Mariten, wife of Simon Freer 359 

Ward, John 14. 284 

Waring, Rachel, wife of Zacharias Hasbrouck 1^72 

Waseniiller, Hendrick 96 

Watkins, Elidia, m. Clorine Deyo 277 

Watson, Capt. 337 

Weaver, Ensign Edward 3j 1 

Weed, Barton, m. Emerctta Deyo 278 

Wells. Philipp, Surveyor Gen ^jb 

W'estbrook, Anthony 92 

W^estbrook, Elizabeth, wife of Isaiah Hasbrouck 372 

Westbrook, Jacob 428 

Westbrook. Solomon, m. E.sther Bevier 234 

Wcstvall, Claritje, wife of Solomon Freer 363, 528 

Wheeler, James 96 

Wherry. Lieut. Evans 328 

Wiban. Jannitje, 2d wife of Hugo Freer the Patentee 351 

Winficld. Annanius, ni. Jane Newkirk Bevier 249 

Winfield. Catharine, wife of Josiah DuBois 311 

Winficld, Ruth, wife of Abel Hasbrouck 387 

Winfield, Silas, m. Necltje Bevier 249 

Wiiislow. John. Dept. Commissioner of Prisoners. N. Y 334 

Wirtz ( Wurts), Catharine, da. of Dr. George 465 

Wirtz (Wurts), Cornelius, son of Dr. Jacob 466 

Wurts, Cornelius, m. Margaret LeFevre 428 

Wirtz, David, son of Dr. Jacob 466 

Wirtz, George. M. D., first physician at New Paltz. m. Esther Has- 
brouck 401. 464. 465 

Wirtz (Wurts), George son of Dr. Jacob 466 

m. Cornelia LeFevre 427 

Wirtz (Wurts), Gertrude, da. of Dr. Jacob 466 

Wirtz, Gitty Jane, da. of Dr. Jacob 466 

Wurts, Jacob 435 

Wirtz. Dr. Jacob, son of Dr. George, m. i. Catharine DuBois 465 

2. Mary Hornbcck 466 

Wurts, Jane, wife of John Elting 492 

Wirtz (Wurts), Janet je, da. of Dr. George 465 

Wirtz. Jansen. son of Dr. Maurice 4^>() 

Wurts, John H 426, 428 

son of Dr. Maurice 466 

Wirtz, Mathusalem, son of Dr. Jacob 466 

m. DuBois 304 

Wirtz. Maurice, son of Dr. Jacob 466 

Wurts. Dr. Maurice (Mauritius) 420 

son of Dr. George 465 

m. Maria Jansen 466 

Wirtz, , da. of Dr. Maurice, wife of Gilbert Elting 466 



INDEX 593 

PACK 

Wirtz, . da. of Dr. Maurice, wife of Nathaniel Elting 466 

Wolverson, Cornelius 411 

Wood. Capt. 337 

Woodhnll, Col. Jesse, m. Hester DuBois 322 

Woodworth, John, Judge Advocate 338 

Wool. Capt. Isaac 328 

Woolsey, Daniel 278 

Woolsey, John 96 

Woolsej', Phebe, wife of Hendricus Deyo 3d 276 

Wolsey, Thomas 96 

Wurts (see Wirtz.) 

Wyard, Nathaniel 96 

Wygant, Asa, son of John W 344 

Wygant, Cornelius, son of John W 344 

Wygant, Elizabeth, da. of John W 344 

Wygant, J. Ward, son of John W 344 

Wygant, John W., m. Elizabeth DuBois 344 

Wygant, Mary Jane, da. of John W 344 

Wygant, Ostrom, son of John W 344 

, Rebecca, wife of John DuBois 344 

Wygant, William D., son of John W 344 

Wyllis, Capt. 2>Z7 

Wynkoop, C, m. Maria LeFevre 421 

Wynkoop, Cornelia, da. of Dirck, wife of Peter Elting 436 

Wynkoop, Cornelius 411 

Wynkoop, Cornelius, of Hurley, m. Leah DuBois 310 

Wynkoop, Dirck, m. Sarah Elting 485. 486 

Wynkoop, Gertrude, da. of Dirck, wife of Alexander Colden, later 

of David Colden 486 

Yandel, Mary, wife of Jacobus Bevier 247 

Yarnton. Anthony 96 

Yelverton, Anthony 75 

York, John 265 

m. Janetje Bevier 247 

York. Maria, wife of Jacob Bevier 2d 246, 247 

York. Maria, wife of Isaac Bevier 247 

Young. Henrietta, da. of Lewis W 34? 

Young. James Henry, son of Lewis W 345 

Young. Juliet, da. of Lewis W 345 

Young, I.ewi? W., m. Rachel Margaret DuBois 345 



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